Best Traditional Design - for reproduction of a Philadelphia Side Chair - 2021 Northern Woods Show
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Cartouche Award 2020 - Presented by the SAPFM for life time achievement in Period Furniture.
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Best Traditional Design - for reproduction of a Philadelphia Tip & Turn Tea Table - 2019 Northern Woods Show
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Best Carving - for reproduction of a Tall Case Clock - 2018 Northern Woods Show
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Best Handwork & Peer Award - for reproduction of a Chippendale Dressing Table - 2017 Northern Woods Show
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Best Handwork - for reproduction of a John Goddard Tea Table - 2015 Northern Woods Show
This is a reproduction of a walnut Philadelphia Roundabout Chair.   This chair is from a private collection of the Richard Waln Meirs Family.   An almost identical chair is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.   The only difference between the Met chair and this one is the shape of the seat.   This chair has a more exaggerated curve in the seat than the Met version.   In his Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture Horner describes this chair as "Perhaps the Finest Queen Anne Roundabout known."   This chair and the Met chair were made by Joseph Armitt between 1740 - 1747.