A VICTORIAN STEEL AND LEATHER UPHOLSTERED ROCKING CHAIR BY R...

A VICTORIAN STEEL AND LEATHER UPHOLSTERED ROCKING CHAIR BY R W WINFIELD
19TH CENTURY
of typical scroll form with green buttoned leather upholstery
107cm high, 63cm wide

NOTE: Gandillot et Cie, Paris, first developed and produced chairs constructed from iron and/or steel tubular frames in 1828. During 19th century, the concept and manufacture of such chairs, and also rocking chairs, spread across Europe and America. Birmingham based Winfield & Co., exhibited a steel framed chair of practically identical design to this chair in the Great Exhibition of 1851.