antler easy chair austria ca. 1880

item e3583

a rare antler armchair made of great original horns from the stag. elaborate manufactured in Austria - most probably by Hermann Keitel, circa 1890. Upholstered with red velvet fabric (probably renewed).

width: 28.35" (72cm)
height: 35.43" (90cm)
depth: 27.56" (70cm)
seat height: 19.69" (50cm)

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The first antler furniture

Trophies of the chase have been used to decorate log cabins and hunting lodges for many a long years. Antlers and stuffed heads mounted on walls where the first hunting objects used to fashion homes. A hunting lodge replete with antlers and stuffed animals may probably have been the place where the first ideas for antler furnishings came up. Antler furniture are furniture which are either manufactured completely from e. g. stag antlers, or furniture which are decorated with antler pieces from the stag, deer, fallow deer... or veneered with sliced antler pieces to get a hunting design. Antler furniture are in addition often decorated with carved horn roses, wild boar tusks and horns from the ibex or chamois.