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George Hunzinger Lounge Chair

June 30, 2009

George Hunzinger furniture fans will probably be interested to see this chair design by him based on the 1869 brace patent. This is not a common form and I personally haven’t seen one in the past. You can see the chair without arms in the Hunzinger book on page 66.
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Carlo Bugatti – A Century Ahead Of His Time

May 1, 2009

Carlo Bugatti’s Art Nouveau furniture designs look more like they were designed for Batman’s home than for the homes of the turn of the 19th century when they were made (the firescreen above was is circa 1900). Paul Tucker tells me that indeed Bruce Wayne’s bedroom furniture in one of the recent Batman movies was [...]

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Stanford White Parlor Set Mystery

April 10, 2009

Usually when I do these antique Victorian furniture posts I post an image or so and accompany it with the brief research that I have done. I’m going to do it backwards this time. I am posting the image first without having done any research and let those in the Rare Victorian community who [...]

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“Hunzinger Chair” Mystery Part III

January 12, 2009

Sorry if this series of posts is hitting the press slowly, but that is intentional as I am getting new information real-time and I want to be sure that you get it as it rolls in. As we’ve been exploring in the past two posts (Part I, and Part II), we’re trying to determine if [...]

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“Hunzinger Chair” Mystery Part II

January 9, 2009

Continuing from where the last post left off,we were trying to determine if an unlabeled chair that Zeke Feldhaus recently purchased was produced by George Hunzinger due to the patent-protected brace design (very bottom image) in the chair or whether another manufacturer either infringed on his patent or perhaps had licensed it.
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“Hunzinger Chair” Mystery Part I

January 5, 2009

I hope everyone had a great holiday break as did I, but it’s time for us all to get back to normalcy. Let’s kick off year 3 of Rare Victorian with a little furniture analysis triggered by a recent series of emails from Zeke Feldhaus, a Rare Victorian regular contributor who purchased the chair to [...]

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George Hunzinger Renaissance Revival Chair

December 9, 2008

This past weekend saw a pair of these George Hunzinger chairs go for $6,000 at auction and now there is a single chair currently seeing some bidding with six days left in the sale, above. It is currently bid up to $1,825. I did not inspect the chairs at the Rago Auction from this weekend, but [...]

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