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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;clutteredcloset49, post: 195411, member: 85&quot;]Not EbelyG, but to answer your question.</p><p><br /></p><p>For me it is the detail that was done.</p><p>Type of wood and the type of decor that was popular at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me this is a mid to late 1800 chair.</p><p><br /></p><p>So it is very possible that the material on the seat now is not the original material.&nbsp; It does appear to be silk and it could have been recovered in the early 1900s.&nbsp; You usually see these chairs in red velvet.&nbsp; Don&#039;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.&nbsp; But more often than not red velvet tends to be the choice.</p><p><br /></p><p>Question is whether you intend to use this chair for what it was meant, to sit in.&nbsp; If that is the case, you will want to recover.&nbsp; If you knew who owned the chair and sat in it and wanted to preserve history, then you would leave it in it&#039;s current condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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