To be honest, I don't like those chairs as presented. Perhaps in person I'd be proven wrong, but they just don't look like they'd be very comfortable when sat upon for any length of time. I do get the whole recycle idea, but these chairs don't look like they were made with practicality in mind.
New chairs, similar materials - L15,000 to make them new...I can believe it. If they were for sale here you'd be lucky to get 50 quid each. Pennies. I can testify that the old ones aren't horribly comfortable, but then neither is flat-pack! Now that leather covered beauty in the background on the other hand might be another ballgame. Also another price range.
Thanks for the great content! I can't afford antiques, though I love them. I buy the next best thing, "vintage". The construction of 1930's and 1940's mass produced furniture is far superior to modern mass produced furniture. People still took pride in their work, and they built all wood furniture (no off gassing) to last. In my whole long life I’ve only ever bought 2 end tables, a coffee table, 2 chaises, and two beds (mattresses and box springs) brand new. The end tables and coffee tables were artist made in the 90’s, and are still going strong. The chaises need reupholstering, and (astonishingly) the mattresses are still fine. But…my 1940’s buffet and chairs are rock solid, and they’ve been around for over fifty years longer!
@@DavidHarperAntiques I'm in the colonies, Canada. Our antiques still cost, we don’t have much older than 150 years. I was hoping the ‘dismissal of brown wood’ thing would mean more here, but it didn’t. Fumed oak is still really big, any era. Otherwise, it seems that everyone wants the mid-century stuff. One thing we do have here, in bulk, is Staffordshire pottery. Early transferware, or plain cream/white. Not your fancy Staffordshire elephants, but honest farmers’ earthenware, and lots of it, to feed the farmhands. Our pottery came from England, and our glass mostly came from the US, except for some early glass works in Nova Scotia during the reign of Victoria. That's practically Ikea modern where you are. I just passed on a purple transferware covered veg with no lid, because it was $18 (about £10). I think it had the Globe Potteries mark. I wasn’t about to use it as a planter… or without a lid. I suspect you’d find our genuine pine and ash antiques primitive, and our ‘quality’ pieces fit only for export.
@@joh7636 I love the fact there lots of Staffordshire there. The potters in Staffordshire were prolific and the history of the area is fascinating. Pottery’s coming and going, going bankrupt, opening, closing down, selling out and moving on…it was the Wild West of pottery making, but they did it very well and sent their wares all over the world…now, sadly, all but a tiny few are gone
We're sold already!..we all love antiques and appreciate the quality and crafmanship.
To be honest, I don't like those chairs as presented. Perhaps in person I'd be proven wrong, but they just don't look like they'd be very comfortable when sat upon for any length of time. I do get the whole recycle idea, but these chairs don't look like they were made with practicality in mind.
Amen!!!!!
Would love to visit him! Great coverage.
New chairs, similar materials - L15,000 to make them new...I can believe it. If they were for sale here you'd be lucky to get 50 quid each. Pennies. I can testify that the old ones aren't horribly comfortable, but then neither is flat-pack! Now that leather covered beauty in the background on the other hand might be another ballgame. Also another price range.
I got my dining set quite inexpensively. Now all I have to do is fix it. Though that will have to wait until after I fix the bedroom furniture.
Well worth fixing!
Thanks for the great content!
I can't afford antiques, though I love them. I buy the next best thing, "vintage". The construction of 1930's and 1940's mass produced furniture is far superior to modern mass produced furniture. People still took pride in their work, and they built all wood furniture (no off gassing) to last.
In my whole long life I’ve only ever bought 2 end tables, a coffee table, 2 chaises, and two beds (mattresses and box springs) brand new. The end tables and coffee tables were artist made in the 90’s, and are still going strong. The chaises need reupholstering, and (astonishingly) the mattresses are still fine.
But…my 1940’s buffet and chairs are rock solid, and they’ve been around for over fifty years longer!
I bet you can afford antiques…I saw a 200 year old sideboard in auction the other day (video here) and it was less than a good lunch……see the vid!
@@DavidHarperAntiques I'm in the colonies, Canada. Our antiques still cost, we don’t have much older than 150 years. I was hoping the ‘dismissal of brown wood’ thing would mean more here, but it didn’t. Fumed oak is still really big, any era. Otherwise, it seems that everyone wants the mid-century stuff.
One thing we do have here, in bulk, is Staffordshire pottery. Early transferware, or plain cream/white.
Not your fancy Staffordshire elephants, but honest farmers’ earthenware, and lots of it, to feed the farmhands.
Our pottery came from England, and our glass mostly came from the US, except for some early glass works in Nova Scotia during the reign of Victoria. That's practically Ikea modern where you are.
I just passed on a purple transferware covered veg with no lid, because it was $18 (about £10). I think it had the Globe Potteries mark. I wasn’t about to use it as a planter… or without a lid.
I suspect you’d find our genuine pine and ash antiques primitive, and our ‘quality’ pieces fit only for export.
@@joh7636 I love the fact there lots of Staffordshire there. The potters in Staffordshire were prolific and the history of the area is fascinating. Pottery’s coming and going, going bankrupt, opening, closing down, selling out and moving on…it was the Wild West of pottery making, but they did it very well and sent their wares all over the world…now, sadly, all but a tiny few are gone
These chairs lack aesthetic appeal - now or 150 years ago.
Fine if the only criterion is something sturdy to sit on.