They Can Seat Pretty in My Living Room

Look at the details....

I love Vintage, I love this Settee...

Please seat down carefully....

John Henry Belter served as a cabinetmaker’s apprentice in Württemberg (now in Germany), where he was trained in the Black Forest tradition of rich carving so admired during the 19th century.

Settling in New York City in 1833, he married and opened a fashionable shop on Broadway.

His favourite material was rosewood with which he experimented.

In 1856 he received one of a total of four patents for his method of processing laminated rosewood in many layers to achieve thin panels that, once shaped in molds through steam heating were finely carved.

This rather personal Louis XV revival style, a somewhat heavy, florid Rococo called zweites Rokoko.

And this Chair.... where should I put you?