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Chippendale ribbon-back chair

A mid-eighteenth-century chair whose pierced splat twists like carved ribbon.

Chippendale names a design vocabulary and a publishing phenomenon as much as one maker. The Director spread adaptable patterns across Britain and the Atlantic world.

Key facts

Designer: Thomas Chippendale
Maker: Chippendale workshop
Year: 1755
Material: mahogany
Movement: English Rococo

Available in: EN

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