chair

Description:

This chair was made in London's East End in the late 1930s. From the 1830s until the 1980s Shoreditch and the surrounding areas were the heart of a very active furniture manufacturing industry. The years leading up to the First World War were the heyday of the trade with many small businesses occupying a warren of small workshops. Later, mechanisation lead to firms expanding and moving to larger premises further north and east, along the Lea Valley. The East End furniture trade was also well known for the number of Jewish and other immigrant populations employed in it. The chair has been reupholstered copying the original upholstery.

Production Date:

c.1939

ID no:

GMUS_46/1973-8

Object size:

Height 85cm, Width 51cm, Depth 58cm

Copyright:

Geffrye Museum