Featured unusual Antique Corner Chair Style and age, etc. help on this

I am looking for any info. on this antique corner chair. Style, age, etc. I cannot find anything like it online. Seat and legs are similar to others, yet back is different. Someone started to strip it and I purchased it this way. Sure wish they would have not though. I believe it would have been stained much darker and was thinking of completing the stripping now and stain it a dark walnut. Any thoughts or suggestions on that. Also, is there a way to varnish to make a piece look dulled with age, as it would have looked before stripping. Thanks for any help on this.

 

I think I can use my new vocabulary word here... oxymoron.
ROUNDED CORNER CHAIR!
Furniture brainiacs will be along shortly with USEFUL info, Annea.

 

Unusual chair. I'm not sure I would call it a corner chair but a round chair with novel leg configuration. Styling would place this to very early 20th century, Prairie School or Arts and Crafts Style. There were somewhat similar barrel chairs made in the Mission style and Frank Lloyd Wright even had a chair with some similarities. They did not have the unusual leg configuration seen with yours. I believe the intended finish is mahogany rather than walnut. A top coat of tung oil varnish and paste wax will approximate the antique finish you are seeking.

Typical Mission barrel chair by Plail Bros.


Frank Lloyd Wright.


Even bears some similarity to some office chairs of the day.



This is the only chair I could find with similar fixed leg configuration.

 

Brad, you are amazing.

 

I can't tell from the picture. Is this a three legged chair or four legs?

Scrolling through this search, there are not many with the barrel shape and round seats.

 

I know it makes no sense but . . .

I wonder if it was a three-legged stool which had a "back" added to it. Of course, that "could" mean that perhaps one of the three legs was moved to a different location on the "chair" bottom.

 

Welcome to the forums!

Found the same leg configuration on a chair. Believe it is the same as Brad's last pic but in a different wood or stain. The seller really knows nothing about it:
http://picclick.com/Antique-Wooden-Corner-Chair-Round-Seat-Solid-222104863829.html

This one is no doubt older than yours, possibly Sheraton?? 3rd one down:
http://antiquestyle.blogspot.com/2011/07/have-seat.html

This website as 3 pages of antique corner, round, chairs with several having the same leg configuration. None is identical to yours, but on the 2nd page, 3rd row in the middle is the most similar to yours:
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/corner-chairs/

--- Susan

 

Welcome!

 

Very interesting chair, Anne. Thanks for posting it.

And, Welcome!

 

Hi and WELCOME anne!! On those two sections, instead of stripping per se, it looks to me like someone might have used something much gentler....more like a cleaner to see what they had.....they almost look sun bleached!! This is a great site for lots of opinions and fun!!

 

I don't know if it's the same thing but there's a thing in the world called "powder chair"

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/armchairs/swedish-rococo-powder-chair/id-f_942332/

 

Very Uncomfortable Looking chair.

 

If the chair is supposed to be an "old/older" design, I am just wondering how a "lady" of that era/time would be comfortable with her legs "straddling" the front-and-center leg on that chair as it would be most unladylike even in one's boudoir.

 

I have the same chair.
It’s part of a set of a Mr and Mrs chairs. Mine was from Portage La Prairie in Canada and belonged to my Grandparents. I would estimate it’s from 1920 ish
Originally it was finished in a dark mahogany. Almost black. I had mine restored. I’d send a pic but not sure how. Says. File too large.

 

Verybrad where would I find the chair in b the very least photo you've posted here in your answer?
That last photo you've posted here is the exact chair i am trying to find information on. This is not my chair but I am looking for any information about it. The photo of my/the chair is included here thank you

 

@verybrad

 

This is from 2016 and I am sure the photo was just gleaned from the internet. In searching just now, I find the photo on popscreen (whatever that is). They say it is originally from ebay so I am sure it is long gone from there.

Antique Oak Spindle Back Barrel Chair with Arms (popscreen.com)

 

I have the same chair. My mother thought my grandfather made it, but since I've seen others like it, I'm pretty sure it was purchased by him, not made by him. It was in her house growing up in Danville, Illinois in the 1920's. It's a combination of bent wood and carved wood. My mother had it refinished and restored at least once, so I'm sure it wouldn't pass Antiques Roadshow muster. She thought it was a "vanity chair", but I haven't seen any descriptions, other than as a "corner chair".