Chairs Through Four Centuries – a personal selection.  

An Exhibition in support of the First Honiton Antiques Festival Monday 14 – Sunday 20 November 2011 inclusive.

Roderick & Valentine Butler in Honiton, Devon are hosting a loan exhibition entitled Chairs Through Four Centuries – a personal selection in support of the First Honiton Antiques Festival running during National Antiques Week. 

The exhibition dates are Monday 14 – Sunday 20 November 2011 inclusive. The opening times during this week will be 10.00am to 5.00pm daily. 

The display will be weighted towards early chairs from the late 16^th C. but will also include interesting 18^th & 19^th C examples, with loans coming mostly from fellow dealers’ own collections. None will have been exhibited before. There will be no catalogue.

The youngest exhibit will be an elegant chair from Designer-Maker Sarah Kay who trained with John Makepeace

Click here for a downloadable poster with more details.  Click here for a downloadable invitation.

Visit www.honitonantiquesfestival.com for the full and varied programme of exhibitions, competitions, talks, valuations, sales and the restoration fair. Links to accommodation nearby are also included. 

 

The Tenth Warwick Symposium on Parish Records

25th to 27th May 2012

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Exhibition Catalogue

Discovering Dennis: The search for Thomas Dennis among the artisans of Exeter.  

In November 2009, Marhamchurch Antiques staged  Discovering Dennis, an exhibition and sale of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century regional oak furniture produced by artisans working in and around Exeter, Devon and by the colonial New England workshop of an immigrant English joiner. Over two-dozen examples of joined furniture were on view at the Guild Hall, Exeter,  objects fusing Continental designs with motifs and construction methods local to Devon, including three-dimensionally modeled foliage, vibrant polychromy, grotesque masks and strapwork based upon the ornament prints of Flemish designers, and an enigmatic moulding that appears as reliably as a signature. 

The exhibition items can still be viewed online  at :http://www.marhamchurchantiques.com/exhibition  and a 52 page catalogue is available, priced at £10 plus postage (£12 first class or £16 next day in the UK).