Art Nouveau style armchair

construction - mahogany; 107 x 58 x 60 cm.
England, early 20th century.
With openwork backrest with decoration resembling a peacock's tail, with flat upholstered seat, supported on cabriole legs at the front, turned, S-shaped legs at the back. The backrest slightly tilted back, rounded at the line of the back, at the bottom it is built of ceovian frames, forming a frame and a vase in the middle, in which a flat-sculpted board with muntins spreading to the sides and upwards, ending in circles, was set. Handrails extending from the channel bars of the bottom of the backrest, curved on the sides, arched towards the seat frame. Seat rounded on the sides, wavy on the front. Fabric attached to the frame with decorative brass nails. Front legs slightly extended in front of the frame, rounded at the front, undercut at the back, ending in a slipper. Rear legs strongly curved back.
Similar forms of seats in the English Art Nouveau style, with identical bases and similar backs, are known from the Welsh (northwest England) antiquarian market. They are described as having been made during the reign of Edward VII (1902 - 1910) under the influence of French carpentry of the period. French (colonial) furniture of almost analogous forms is known to have been made at the same time, but not in wood, but in rotang (reed-palm), whose very popular designs influenced carpentry in both France and England. The featured armchair has a base, based on traditional designs from the English Rococo period, constantly popular in England since the 18th century, combined with a modern, even surprisingly modern, form of backrest.