Settee
Category
Furniture
Date
1930 - 1969
Materials
Beech, oak, velour, horsehair, webbing, plastic
Measurements
79 x 135 x 82 cm
Place of origin
Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318179.1
Summary
A drop-end settee, part of a suite of seat furniture, comprising a drop-end settee and two armchairs, British, with rectangular back flanked by two out-turned armrests, the right armrest with internal ratchet mechanism allowing the armrest to be dropped flat or at a number of angles, with fixed squab cushions, a small metal catch protruding through the outer side of the armrest which can be moved to release the ratchet mechanism, on four flattened square-form stained beech feet atop black plastic castors stamped 'ALBION, upholstered in a textured russet woven velour with blue and red flowers with scrolling leaves, with matching piping.
Provenance
Sunnycroft was built in 1880 for J.G. Wackrill, founder of the Shropshire Brewery. It was bought in the early 1890s by Mary Jane Slaney who proceeded to extend the house and lay out the grounds to create the estate that is there today. After Mary Slaney died in 1912 the property was bought by her brother-in-law John Vernon Thomas Lander. Three generations of the Lander family lived at Sunnycroft. J.V.T. Lander's granddaughter Joan bequeathed the estate to the National Trust in 1997.