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Vintage 10ft6" Twin Pillar Mahogany DiningTable & 12ShieldbackChairs 20thCentury

$10,679.96List Price

About the Item

This is a superb Vintage twin pedestal dining table in elegant George III style, crafted in mahogany with twelve shieldback dining chairs, all bought at great expense from Harrods, dating from the second half of the 20th Century. The rectangular top is decoratively crossbanded in satinwood and features two leaves which can be added or removed as required to suit the occasion. It is raised on a pair of gun barrel columns with quadruple swept sabre leg bases which are fitted with brass toes and castors. The amazing craftsmanship that has gone into this elegant table is immediately obvious, the lovely warm tones and grain of the flame mahogany wood ensuring the table is shown off to perfection. The set of twelve dining chairs comprises two armchairs and ten side chairs all featuring an attractive shield back design hand carved withj The Coronet Plume of The Prince of Wales feathers with drop in seats upholstered a stunning striped fabric. THE BOTANICAL NAME FOR THE MAHOGANY THIS ITEM IS MADE OF IS SWIETENIA MACROPHYLLA AND THIS TYPE OF MAHOGANY IS NOT SUBJECT TO CITES REGULATION. Condition: In really excellent condition having only been beautifully cleaned, polished and waxed in our workshops, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 77.5 cm x Width 319 cm x Depth 112.5 cm - Fully extended Height 77.5 cm x Width 183 cm x Depth 112.5 cm - Leaves Removed Height 98 cm x Width 55 cm x Depth 55 cm - Armchairs Height 98 cm x Width 52 cm x Depth 55 cm - Side chairs Height 51 cm - Seat height Dimensions in inches: Height 2 foot, 6 inches x Width 10 foot, 6 inches x Depth 3 foot, 8 inches - Fully extended Height 2 foot, 6 inches x Width 6 foot x Depth 3 foot, 8 inches - Leaves Removed Height 3 foot, 3 inches x Width 1 foot, 10 inches x Depth 1 foot, 10 inches - Armchairs Height 3 foot, 3 inches x Width 1 foot, 8 inches x Depth 1 foot, 10 inches - Side chairs Height 1 foot, 8 inches - Seat height Mahogany is probably one of the largest ‘families’ of hardwood, having many different varieties within its own species. Mahogany has been used for centuries in ship building, house building, furniture making etc and is the core structure of just about every 19th century vanity box, dressing case or jewellery box. It became more of a Victorian trend to dress Mahogany with these decorative veneers, such as Burr Walnut and Coromandel, so that the actual Mahogany was almost hidden from view. Mahogany itself is a rich reddish brown wood that can range from being plain in appearance to something that is so vibrant, figured and almost three dimensional in effect. Although Mahogany was most often used in its solid form, it also provided some beautifully figured varieties of veneer like ‘Flame’ Mahogany and ‘Fiddleback’ Mahogany (named after its preferred use in the manufacture of fine musical instruments). Cuban Mahogany was so sought after, that by the late 1850′s, this particular variety became all but extinct. Harrods founder Charles Henry Harrod first established his business in 1824, aged 25. The business was located south of the River Thames in Southwark. The premises were located at 228 Borough High Street. He ran this business, variously listed as a draper, mercer and a haberdasher, certainly until 1831. During 1825 the business was listed as 'Harrod and Wicking, Linen Drapers, Retail', but this partnership was dissolved at the end of that year. His first grocery business appears to be as ‘Harrod & Co.Grocers’ at 163 Upper Whitecross Street, Clerkenwell, E.C.1., in 1832. In 1834 in London's East End, he established a wholesale grocery in Stepney, at 4, Cable Street, with a special interest in tea. In 1849, to escape the vice of the inner city and to capitalise on trade to the Great Exhibition of 1851 in nearby Hyde Park, Harrod took over a small shop in the district of Brompton, on the site of the current store. Beginning in a single room employing two assistants and a messenger boy, Harrod's son Charles Digby Harrod built the business into a thriving retail operation selling medicines, perfumes, stationery, fruit and vegetables. Harrods rapidly expanded, acquired the adjoining buildings, and employed one hundred people by 1880. However, the store's booming fortunes were reversed in early December 1883, when it burnt to the ground. Remarkably, in view of this calamity, Charles Harrod fulfilled all of his commitments to his customers to make Christmas deliveries that year—and made a record profit in the process. In short order, a new building was built on the same site, and soon Harrods extended credit for the first time to its best customers, among them Oscar Wilde,Lillie Langtry, Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Noël Coward, Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Sigmund Freud, A. A. Milne, and many members of the British Royal Family. On Wednesday, 16 November 1898, Harrods debuted England's first "moving staircase" (escalator) in their Brompton Road stores; the device was actually a woven leather conveyor belt-like unit with a wood and "silver plate-glass" balustrade. Nervous customers were offered brandy at the top to revive them after their 'ordeal'. The department store was purchased by the Fayed brothers in 1985. In 2010 Harrods was sold to Qutar Holdings. Harrods was the holder of royal warrants from 1910 till 2000 from the following: * Queen Elizabeth II (Provisions and Household Goods) * The Duke of Edinburgh (Outfitters) * The Prince of Wales (Outfitters and Saddlers) * The late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (China and Glass) The store occupies a 5-acre (20,000 m2) site and has over one million square feet (90,000 m2) of selling space in over 330 departments making it the biggest department store in Europe. The UK's second-biggest shop, Selfridges, Oxford Street, is a little over half the size with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m2) of selling space, while the third largest, Allders of Croydon had 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) of retail space. By comparison Europe's second-largest department store the KaDeWe in Berlin has a retail space of 650,000 square feet (60,000 m2). Our reference: A5044a

Dimensions:
Height: 30.52 in (77.5 cm)Width: 125.6 in (319 cm)Depth: 44.3 in (112.5 cm)Seat Height: 20.08 in (51 cm)
Style:
George III (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Mahogany
Place of Origin:
England
Period:
20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
20th Century
Condition:
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: A5044a1stDibs: LU950648503842

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