Description
Original Hand Painted Can Can chair by Kim Curtis. This original bistro bentwood antique chair has been rescued and been given a unique bespoke decoration.
For the artwork, I have gone to a time when music and art thrived in Paris and the gaiety, life and intensity of the city were so brilliantly captured by the many young artists who had flocked there. Thonet patented his ‘Coffee Shop Chair No. 14’ in 1859 so it is likely that Toulose Lautrec would have been familiar with this chair in 1896 when he painted ‘Troupe de Mlle. Eglantine’. It just seemed fitting to me to put them together and have the girls – if not dancing on the tables – certainly dancing on the chair! And – sorry Lautrec – with slightly prettier faces!!
When I received it, the chair had been covered in a multitude of paint layers, it was very wobbly and the seat was coming away. To see its journey, please visit our blog article. Now it is stabilised, painted, rejuvenated and ready for 100 more years.
