Howard & Sons Chairs with Vintage Bennison Fabric

My posts are like buses....you stand in the cold & rain for hours nothing.......then 6 come all at once......Its actually ages since I have waited for a bus, certainly since leaving London over 10 years ago. I now live in a small hamlet in rural Somerset England where we only get a bus twice a week once on a tuesday & once on a thursday......if you miss one then you have to wait for days.....

This week Iam student less.......sometimes I need a week just to catch up on my stuff & today has been a most marvelous day. I was prettry sure when I saw these chairs in my local auction that they were Howard Chairs......Howards & Sons Chairs are most sought aftet as they opitimise the English Country House Look....with their deep rake & siege du duvet comfort, they really are chairs you can sleep in, they are just so comfortable. They are actually a very very fine quality,  birchwood  hardwood frames with chamfered edges, & this " siege du duvet" feathered cushioning on top of a traditional stuffing which gives it that "sink" into fealing........so I was very pleased to have won them in the auction.

Today I started to strip them off as I wanted to get underneath all the layers of patching that had been done to them since their arrival in someones drawing room circa 1910........to my delight I found the original fabric still in place....& this I believe to be Bennison, although I do need to do some research into this, but its beautiful & these chairs would have been most magnificent at their conception, with this wonderfull botanical fabric with exotic birds & flowers on........which them makes you wonder about the people.......the house......who were they........