George III Painted Carlton House Desk & Shield Back Chair Set

Material: Birch wood structure + Rattan+ Fabric

Dimensions: L62cm × W66cm × H111cm

Weight: 10.2KG

Assembly: Fully Assembled

Transportation Method: Sea Freight （*Shipping Large furniture is typically shipped by sea, which may take longer. Please allow ample time for your order. If you need expedited delivery, please contact us.）

In the closing decades of the 18th century, English furniture making reached a moment of rare convergence. The neoclassical ideals arriving from the continent, the decorative exuberance of the Japanning tradition, and the particular English genius for combining utility with beauty produced a body of work that has never quite been equaled for its combination of elegance and intelligence.

The Carlton House Desk is the finest expression of that moment. Named for the London residence of the Prince of Wales, the form was conceived for someone who understood that writing was not merely a practical act but a social and intellectual performance, requiring a stage worthy of the occasion. The U-shaped superstructure of small drawers and compartments rises behind the writing surface like a private library in miniature, organizing correspondence, documents and the accumulated evidence of an active mind. This example is painted in the Japanned manner, a warm cinnabar red ground decorated with hand-painted floral sprays and classical garlands, the brass gallery rail at the crown completing a piece that is as much architecture as furniture.

The Hepplewhite Shield Back Chair continues the conversation. George Hepplewhite's shield back, published in his Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide of 1788, became one of the most copied forms in the history of English furniture, because it solved a problem that every chair designer faces: how to make something structurally sound that also appears to be made entirely of air. The pierced splat, the painted floral decoration and the lavender velvet cushion bring the chair into the same decorative world as the desk without repeating it.

Together they form a writing setting of considerable distinction, for a library, a study or any interior that understands that the desk at which one sits says as much about a person as the books on the shelves behind it.

Newly crafted in the European decorative arts tradition.

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