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Help identifying a dining chair

last year

This chair was a curb find I originally planned to paint and recover the cushion, until I turned it over and saw the bottom. (Second pic may be in the comments if I can't post two.)

Carol

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Fori

last year

No idea on vintage of your chair. It's kind of classic.

What is it that made you reconsider painting it? (I wouldn't paint it--looks like a pretty wood.) This is the best style of chair to recover, at least for me, because they are so easy. I have some from the 1940s as well as the 1960s with that sort of underside structure.

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Sandplum1
Original Author
last year
It had been painted a minty green color and the supports seem to indicate that this isn't a recently built seat. I've checked over 20 "chair" posts in this forum and haven't seen this style yet.
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I have those chairs. Six I bought from pottery barn in 1994 and about ten sit in the garage for holidays from CL for $25 or less each. You need to know that they stopped making green well over 10 years ago. And while they were made in Italy during the early 90’s, PB moved production to Asia in the mid/late 90’s or so. Because of the age, condition color and quality issues may be present so check each chair carefully.
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Sandplum1
Original Author
last year
FFori, I was going to paint it to match one of my student's decor as a gift. One of the things that caught my eye was how easy I knew it would be to change out the fabric.😉
colleenoz
last year
I wouldn’t paint it- it’s easy enough to re-cover the seat to match a decor, but once it’s painted you have to repaint to change the colour, and I know which I’d rather do.
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Sandplum1
Original Author
last year
TBH, I was leaning toward just giving the wood a light sanding, cleaning, then a coat of polyurethane. It IS pretty.
Fori
last year
Maybe midcentury-ish? The build goes with that (although I don't know how long they made them like that) and the way it's kind of a slinky sexy minimalist version of a typical Queen Anne style sort of fits in there. (I'm making this up, by the way, but it feels plausible. 😁)

It'll be a lovely gift.
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elcieg
11 months ago
last modified: 11 months ago
This is just a guess...1960 ish maple chair, stripped, Queen Anne style, looks like it was left out in the weather, notice replace screws in corner braces...not valuable. But, you could do great things with paint or stain and new fabric.

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