[65728][ERCOL] Vintage Goldsmith Chair

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Ercol is a long-established furniture manufacturer in the UK. It is a rare brand that continues to receive high support for the same model, both as new furniture and as antiques. Ercol Furniture was founded in High Wycombe in 1920 by Italian-born furniture designer Lucien Arcolani, who immigrated to the UK in the early 20th century. One of the key points of Ercol's success was inventing a method of drying elm wood, which was considered unsuitable for furniture at the time because it was difficult to dry and would warp. The collection combines traditional manufacturing methods, such as the Windsor chair, with modern design, and is light and simple with a casual design. The stacking child chair, designed in 1957, was widely used in facilities such as elementary schools and quickly became a best-selling brand. In recent years, Margaret Howell (British fashion designer) exhibited vintage Ercol stacking child chairs in her London shop, and the Ercol chairs were very well received. This led to Ercol starting to manufacture reproductions of the product in 2002. This reproduction was later sold at Margaret Howell's shop and quickly became popular. Items with the yellow and gold color, commonly known as the Gold Label, from Ercol's heyday in the 1960s and 1970s have long been traded at a premium, but in recent years, including vintage Blue Label items from after that, the prices have soared to nearly double what they were in the past in the UK.

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