Ernest Race - Race Furniture - A suite of furniture from the Sheppey range, to include two armchairs and a two seat sofa of ash construction with stove-enamelled steel frames, bearing paper labels and upholstered in green hopsack style cloth, together with an unlabelled ash veneered coffee or occasional table of square form, height 30cm and 57cm square, S/D. (4)
NB- The Sheppey range was the winner of a Design Centre Award in 1963. Provenance - Originally purchased by the present owner's father, an architect, directly from Race Furniture. The original upholstery was grey cloth, then a mustard yellow before the current green cloth upholstery. The suite was returned to Race Furniture each time it was re-upholstered. The chairs and sofa in this lot are offered for sale as works of art. They may not comply with the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) Safety Regulations 1988 and for this reason should not be used in a private dwelling.

Condition report
Height of backs of chairs and sofa 85cm. Width across the arms of the chairs is 63cm and the width of the sofa across the arms is 118cm. Depth of frames is 71cm. Height of seats at the front is 34cm. There is some wear and marks to the upholstery and some splitting to the seats. Two of the rubber straps are missing from the sofa base and another strap is beginning to tear. Wooden slats have been inserted to the rubber webbing of one of the chairs. One of the rubber straps is starting to tear to the other chair. The chairs and sofa are labelled but the table is not. Some wear to the table top.

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