SOLD Pair Of Toothill Mid Century Lounge Chairs Original Lamb’s Wool Upholstery Vintage Retro MCM

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Pair Of Mid Century Lounge Chairs By Toothill With Original Lamb's Wool Upholstery Vintage Retro MCM

£1,895

This beautiful pair are really are fine examples of Scandinavian influenced mid century English furniture. A rare pair of chairs made from afrormosia wood by highly esteemed British manufacturer, Toothill.

Very rare to find a matching pair with their original lambs wool upholstery.

‘Toothill’ was founded by Reg Toothill in Newton Aycliffe after the 2nd World War. His original business was making covers for existing sofas. Post War restrictions limited production of new furniture and even in the early 1950’s it was difficult for new manufacturers to make furniture particularly as wood was rationed and only available to larger makers. If you couldn’t buy a new sofa whether it was because there was so little available or down to cost, the only alternative was to have an existing one re-upholstered.

Toothill used afromosia in the 1960’s for their frames and detailing. It’s sometimes called African teak, but it’s not actually from the teak family and is darker and hard to work with. It was also used by Guy Rogers of Liverpool for their equally stylish sofas and chairs in the early 1960’s, but they later moved on to using teak whereas Toothill seemed to have stuck with afromosia.

Toothill are a medium sized company employing about 100 people with their own fleet of vans. At various times they also fitted out pubs and clubs, which fits in with the upholstery side and also made fire surrounds in the 1970’s.

In 1989 the business was bought by a Swedish company for about £4.5 million but closed down soon after.

Dimensions
Height - 69cm
Width - 68cm
Depth - 80cm
Seat Height - 41cm
Seat Depth - 51cm

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Local delivery can be free depending on distance. National and international delivery is available at an extra cost which we can organise on your behalf.

Collection in person is welcome. We are West of Cambridge in Bourn CB23.

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Please note that vintage furniture may have some slight imperfections, which is to be expected in keeping with its age, as we do not offer returns on items sold.