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Pair of Baker Furniture library or lounge arm chairs, circa 1980s. Made of mahogany featuring French Louis XVI styling with domed / serpentine top, padded fauteuil arms, carved acanthus foliate motif and cabriole legs. Very comfortable.
Since 1893 Baker Furniture has been making furniture and over the decades the Baker family established its American company as an authority on Old World craftsmanship at the forefront of contemporary design. Bakers design team and upholstery experts, along with tastemakers around the world, have built a deep collection of pieces that spans the traditional to the comfortably modern. A new world of design is realized by methods and techniques that go back centuries. Baker has expanded its breadth for over a hundred years, but has stayed true to its roots and philosophy that extraordinary designs should be executed in an equally extraordinary way: luxury, comfort and design. Choose your next Baker piece, knowing it will complement one room to the next, one home to the next, one decade to the next. 21st Century designs, 125 years of experience.
Dimensions:
28″ x 33″ x 43″h, seat 20″Creator: Baker Furniture Company (Manufacturer)Dimensions: Height: 43 in (109.22 cm)Width: 33 in (83.82 cm)Depth: 28 in (71.12 cm)Seat Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Sold As: Set of 2Style: Louis XVI (In the Style Of)Materials and Techniques: Mahogany,UpholsteryPeriod: 1980-1989Date of Manufacture: 1980sCondition: GoodWear consistent with age and use. Good vintage condition, wear and distressing commensurate with age and use.Seller Location: Dayton, OHReference Number: Seller: 424181stDibs: LU5343241223102Shop All Baker Furniture Company
Baker Furniture Company
Owing to the companys collaborations with many leading designers and artists over time, vintage Baker furniture is consistently sought after today. The heritage brands chairs, dining tables, desks and other pieces are widely known to collectors and design enthusiasts for their fine craftsmanship and durability.
Within a few decades of its launch, Baker Furniture Company evolved into one of the largest and most important furniture manufacturers in the United States and became known for its high-quality production standards. Siebe Baker and business partner Henry Cook founded the original iteration of Baker Furniture Company in 1890 in Allegan, Michigan, after immigrating to the United States from the Netherlands. Allegan is a small town west of Grand Rapids, which, at that time was home to Widdicomb Furniture Co. and more and was known as Americas furniture capital. The company manufactured doors and interior moldings and introduced a combination desk and bookcase in 1893. In the early 1900s, Siebe became the sole owner of the business.
Among others, stage designer Joseph Urban and modernist designer Kem Weber contributed designs to Baker in the 1920s. In 1932, under the leadership of Siebes son, Hollis, who started at the company as a salesman but took the reins when his father passed in 1925, Baker Furniture introduced bedroom pieces and debuted its Manor House collection, which made reproductions of European furnishings available to the American market. (Hollis was an avid traveler and procured antiques overseas for the company to reproduce in the United States.) Soon, Baker Furniture Company moved to Holland, Michigan, and eventually opened showrooms in Grand Rapids and elsewhere.
Pioneering Scandinavian designer Finn Juhl created a Danish modern line for Baker in 1951, and the company produced his award-winning Chieftain chair for a short time. In the late 1950s, Baker introduced the Milling Road label to reach a younger audience with stylish but less costly furnishings like console tables, walnut dining chairs and more, and in 1961, British furniture designer T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings introduced a modern neoclassical line at Baker.
The 1960s and 70s saw the introduction of historic reproduction furniture lines such as Woburn Abbey and the Historic Charleston collection, which remain very popular to this day. In 1990, Baker was licensed to produce a furniture line from Colonial Williamsburg. That same year, the Smithsonian Museum introduced Bakers Chippendale chair into its permanent collection and the Grand Rapids Art Museum dedicated an exhibition to Bakers 100th anniversary, a showcase that included 150 pieces of furniture Siebe Baker had collected as part of a larger assortment that had served as inspiration for his designs.
Today, vintage Baker furniture, such as its elegant mahogany nightstands and teak credenzas particularly those crafted by Finn Juhl sees high demand online and elsewhere. The company continues to produce contemporary collections with well-known designers such as Bill Sofield, Barbara Barry and Kara Mann and remains on par with some of the highest quality furniture in the industry.
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