E W Godwin for William Smee. An Anglo-Japanese walnut spindle back armchair

Edward William Godwin (attributed) for William A. and S. Smee. An Anglo-Japanese walnut spindle back armchair, with a re-upholstered yellow leather seat, metal label, 87cm high. Godwin designed for W.A. and S. Smee, 89 Finsbury Pavement, London and his designs were exhibited by them at the Furniture Trades Exhibition in 1883. See Azlin, Elizabeth 'E.W. Godwin' London: John Murray, p. 22. The front legs and stretcher are almost identical to the next lot and the cloud shape detail to the top is comparable to the chairs in Soros, Susan Weber 'The Secular Furniture of E. W. Godwin', p. 112 .