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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 11617741, member: 2844&quot;]We call this model a Raffles chair. It was designed by sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, a British colonial official who became famous as governor of the Dutch East Indies. He wasn&#039;t just an official, but talented in many fields.</p><p><br /></p><p>Raffles worked in the tropics, so he knew how uncomfortable European chairs could be in sweltering heat. He designed the open-backed Raffles chair for colonial use in a hot climate and it has been popular ever since, at least here in the Netherlands. Most Dutch selling venues have one or more Raffles chairs on their site. Many are teak, the classic Javanese wood and go-to wood in colonial Indonesia.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe the first were made while he was governor of the Dutch East Indies, 1811-1816, but yours looks later. I am fine with late 19th century, but will leave a more precise date to the others.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford_Raffles" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford_Raffles" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford_Raffles</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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