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IN  TRADITIONAL  FASHION
Rifle maker by royal warrant to the Duke of Edinburgh and by appointment to HRH Prince Charles as supplier of bespoke guns and accessories, Holland & Holland holds a special position in the world of antiques.
Maharajas from the Indian sub-continent, kings and princes from around the world have long been valued customers visiting the Bruton Street, Mayfair showrooms in London.
More recently the old established company has added accessories, old and new, alongside its sporting rifles. Craftsmanship has always been a vital integral part of the firm's philosophy.


Pictured on this page is a skilled craftsman sporting-gun actioner at work half a century ago at Holland & Holland's factory in west London and a more recent advertisement illustration of the firm's current broader trading base.
Some American veteran car enthusiasts visiting Britain have even been known to acquire Holland & Holland guns before heading north in appropriate style to bag grouse in the moors on the glorious Twelfth (of August).
 

 


 
THE  WORLD'S  BEST  ANTIQUE  WINDSOR  CHAIRS
Two 19th century Mendlesham armchairs of basic form with turned legs.
18th century elaborate Gothic elbow chair in the so-called Chippendale taste in country furniture.




Numerous academic works have been written about the Windsor chair. Now complementing them is "The Windsor Chair - an illustrated celebration" by Cotswold antiques dealer, Michael Harding-Hill based at Chipping
Norton, Oxfordshire (Antique Collectors' Club, 25).
Over 150 colour plates illustrate the very best Windsor chairs in the world. There is a special section on American Windsors and an epilogue outlines the latest developments concluding with a 2002 Golden Jubilee chair.





Author Michael Harding-Hill

In an authorative foreword, John Andrews writes: "The Windsor chair...ranked alongside much 18th century furniture as a unique expression of design, construction and use of material. Its acceptance and utility led to its enthusiastic adoption in America where original creativity led to a distinctly different set of forms but an equally celebrated industry.
"Michael Harding-Hill has been established as a leading dealer and authority on the most desirable Windsor chairs for many years. No contemporary could have handled and assessed more Windsor chairs of high quality, observing and researching the remarkable range of features their makers lovingly incorporated as the form of chair developed over three centuries."
In this book the author brings together, describes and illustrates those "Best Chairs" in a pictorial record far superior to any previously published.

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