This chair is one of a set commissioned from the Century Guild by Henry Boddington for the dining room of Pownall Hall, Cheshire. The V&A chair is stamped by E.Goodall & Co., Manchester, the Guild's agents, who apparently made most of the furniture for Pownall Hall. At least three of the chairs, with a matching armchair, are visible in an early photograph of the room (collection Pownall Hall School). There are three other surviving chairs of the same design (two at William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, and one in Manchester City Art Gallery). Manchester also own the matching armchair and another armchair, of different design with a high curved upholstered back, also visible in the early photograph. The early photograph of the dining room show all the seat furniture covered in the same fabric which survives on all five chairs. This has been identified as woven by A.H. Lee of Birkenhead.
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This chair is one of a set commissioned from the Century Guild by Henry Boddington for the dining room of Pownall Hall, Cheshire. The V&A chair is stamped by E.Goodall & Co., Manchester, the Guild's agents, who apparently made most of the furniture for Pownall Hall. At least three of the chairs, with a matching armchair, are visible in an early photograph of the room (collection Pownall Hall School). There are three other surviving chairs of the same design (two at William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, and one in Manchester City Art Gallery). Manchester also own the matching armchair and another armchair, of different design with a high curved upholstered back, also visible in the early photograph. The early photograph of the dining room show all the seat furniture covered in the same fabric which survives on all five chairs. This has been identified as woven by A.H. Lee of Birkenhead.