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Artist/Maker	Darras
Place of origin	France

Chair of walnut with marquetry of sycamore partly stained. The seat and a portion of the back are covered with cut and embossed brown leather, fastened by star shaped brass-headed nails. The upper portion of the back is divided into three compartments, one filled with a leather panel enriched with flowing floral forms and the others with floral sprays in marquetry, with leather seat-cover, decorated with borders of long wavy leaf-like forms of leaves at the angles

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Category	Furniture
Object type	Chair
Parts	This object consists of 2 parts. Chair Seat Cover
Materials and techniques	Leather Walnut Sycamore Brass (Alloy) Marquetry Embossing
Brief description	Chair, French, 1900. Made by A Darras. Donaldson Collection
Physical description	Chair of walnut with marquetry of sycamore partly stained. The seat and a portion of the back are covered with cut and embossed brown leather, fastened by star shaped brass-headed nails. The upper portion of the back is divided into three compartments, one filled with a leather panel enriched with flowing floral forms and the others with floral sprays in marquetry, with leather seat-cover, decorated with borders of long wavy leaf-like forms of leaves at the angles
Dimensions	Height: 94cm (Note: from department file) Width: 41.3cm (Note: from department file) Depth: 42.2cm (Note: from department file)
Credit line	Given by George Donaldson
Object history	Exhibited in the Paris Exhibition, 1900
Collection	Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Accession number	1987:1-1900

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O306804/chair-darras/

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