Featured Unique Chair-Round Corner Chair?

I recently bought this chair form an estate sale -impulse buy! It has beautiful inlaid details. Can anyone tell me anything about it?

 

Pre-1918. Beyond that, I leave it to the experts.

 

Not the expert.
I have always called this Hepplewhite style. I would put the time in the mid to late 1800s.
Wait for Brad.

 

Does have some elements of Hepplewhite but also Adam period styling. The mix of styles and those little flare outs at the feet are a bit odd (or is that the casters?) and make me thing this is Edwardian period rather than 19th century.

 

Thanks for the replies. I am not an antiquer (or wasn't) so I don't know what it all means. I just really liked it .

It has metal casters, yes.

 

I agree Edwardian,that inlay is beautifully done.I do find those arms rather unusual.Im thinking English,but thats just a guess.Lovely chair,Id have jumped on it too.

 

Interesting to see its original upholstery fabric.

Debora

 

OK, so from your replies and a little research, I am led to understand that it could be Edwardian, done in a mix of Adam and Hepplewhite styles.
Some questions:
Early 20th Century?
Debora thinks the upholstery is original...should I NOT get it re-upholtered?? It is somewhat bulging at the bottom.
The casters seem to be brass -are they also original? Do they give any indication to help identify it?
I'm really interested in knowing more about it -can you suggest any resources?

 

EvelyB, what tells you that it's pre-1918?

 

One more detail: I noticed that the bottoms of the legs are straight: the flares are metal and part of the casters.

 

Welcome!

 

The chair is absolutely delightful and probably the most beautiful corner chair I've ever seen. You are lucky to have it.
The upholstery adds so much character to it even though the design already itself is amazing.

 

Not EbelyG, but to answer your question.

For me it is the detail that was done.
Type of wood and the type of decor that was popular at the time.

To me this is a mid to late 1800 chair.

So it is very possible that the material on the seat now is not the original material. It does appear to be silk and it could have been recovered in the early 1900s. You usually see these chairs in red velvet. Don't know if that was done to copy the original material, or if that is what designers think this type of chair looks best in. But more often than not red velvet tends to be the choice.

Question is whether you intend to use this chair for what it was meant, to sit in. If that is the case, you will want to recover. If you knew who owned the chair and sat in it and wanted to preserve history, then you would leave it in it's current condition.

 

I don't see Victorian.

Debora

 

I'm not at all an expert but I would point out that different countries and especially in Europe even regions have had different styles and takes on furniture throughout the times. Not all edwardian era furniture looks the same, for example. There are a lot of exceptions.

 

To answer the question, what gives the time period away to me is the wheels. Those castors on the bottom were only used for a few decades, and vanished in the Great War. They were put on furniture so you could clean the floors.

 

Still don't see Victorian.

Debora

 

The Victorians swiped design motifs and styles from all eras and reused them.

 

Each period of furniture incorporated ideas from other periods.

 

Thanks for the replies. It is an interesting chair, to be sure