Cecil Beaton, a circus drum armchair, circa 1935, painted le...

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Cecil Beaton, a circus drum armchair, circa 1935, painted leather, wood and rope, the chair seat of cylindrical form, the arm supports styled as batons, the round back painted with crossed drum sticks, 91cm high Note: designed for Beaton's circus themed bedroom at Ashcombe House; see Calloway, S. 1988, Twentieth Century Decoration: The Domestic Interior from 1900 to the Present Day, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp 280 and 282-283
Calloway, S. 1994, Baroque Baroque: The Culture of Excess, London: Phaidon
pp 83 and 90-92 for references to this and similar chairs