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Re: Help identifying chair?
« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2016, 07:15:55 am »
In the UK you might see this referred to as a slipper or bedroom chair.

Lovely example and would do better than $75 in the UK.

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Re: Help identifying chair?
« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2016, 08:59:43 am »
It may be in the UK !!  Style looks typically English !! Not many people here use the term Edwardian,, except for Ghopper ocassionally !!

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Re: Help identifying chair?
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2016, 10:05:09 am »
Plus the modern furniture in the pic is popular in England.

Clues, lovely clues.

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Re: Help identifying chair?
« Reply #18 on: January 24, 2016, 10:13:48 am »
What do you call those chairs that women use when applying makeup? It's almost like a stool but shaped like a small chair, you see them in large bathrooms in USA now where you have a long row of vanities/sinks and in between the sinks is a low vanity where the makeup thingy happens. Anyway, one of those kinda chairs, only victorian version?
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Re: Help identifying chair?
« Reply #19 on: January 24, 2016, 11:59:02 am »
Boudoir chairs or vanity chairs !!

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Re: Help identifying chair?
« Reply #20 on: January 30, 2016, 03:54:48 pm »
Boudoir chair works pretty well. I'll stick with walnut.

Nursing chairs would typically collapse like a camp stool when lifted from the top rail, then could be "unfolded" at a new location. The reason is that there would typically be a baby in one arm, a chair in another. So it had to be portable. Thus the correct supposition that casters would not be a likely part of the equation.

Oh yes, many nursing chairs were also rockers.
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Re: Help identifying chair?
« Reply #21 on: February 02, 2016, 12:04:15 am »
Typically vanities had smaller stools or chairs that could push up/under.  This appears to be a wider chair than older vanities would typically take.

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Re: Help identifying chair?
« Reply #22 on: February 02, 2016, 04:51:44 am »
Yeah, you are probably right, i have no idea what the function of this chair was/is, still, appears to be very high quality victorian piece.