Object Description
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William Morris. Sussex ebonized rush seat armchair retaining the original rush seat and side rails. Period writing on the Sussex chairs: Of all the specific minor improvements in common household objects due to Morris, the rush-bottomed Sussex chair perhaps takes the first place. It was not his own invention, but was copied with trifling improvements from an old chair of village manufacture in Sussex. With or without modification it has been taken up by all the modern manufacturer’s and is in almost Universal use.
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