The furniture designer and retailer Ambrose Heal collaborated on the design of this chair with the architect Philip Tilden for use at Chartwell, the house Tilden renovated for Sir Winston Churchill in Kent. It was part of a dining suite that later entered the catalogue of Heal's furniture shop in Tottenham Court Road, London -- this being one of Heal's versions. The open-lattice back is inspired by late eighteenth-century English chairs with a lattice of diamonds or hexagons, typically formed with thinner, moulded members rather than the undetailed squares used here. The style of this chair typifies Ambrose Heal's stripped-back Georgian manner and also owes much to the honesty and clarity of Arts and Crafts furniture.