Description
Smith & Watson [Published date: NO date, circa 1987]. The Chair Collection - Edition I. Soft cover, 120 pp. "More than 300 examples of fine traditional seating from the Golden Age of Furniture Design 1720 - 1840".
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Glossy pictorial soft covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-library. NO remainder marks. Color and black and white photos throughout. Includes 20 page Smith & Watson Retail Price list from January 1988 laid in. Features the following collections: Executive conference room; English Leather collection; Dining Room; English Country Collection of Windsor Chairs and Oak Dining Chairs; Sofa, Settees and Armchairs; Children's Chair collection; Benches; includes index. Smith & Watson was founded in 1907 by Richard Smith and Alexander Watson and was quaintly referred to as "a London furniture shop in New York." In the early 1940s the company was purchased by the late John Ryan whose sons, John P. and Robert, would later follow him into the business. By this time the firm had moved to larger quarters and was catering to the "carriage trade", wealthy New York families such as the Rockefellers, the Astors, the Carnegies, and the Mellons. By the late fifties Smith & Watson had been "discovered" by the interior design and architectural trade. Later also catering to the corporate business, political, and artistic elite.