A friend of mine gave me a set of 4 of these chairs and said she purchased them from Heywood Wakefield years ago, but I don't see a name underneath, just a serial number. I can't find any comparable styles online, similar but not exactly the same. Any idea on how to tell if they are real? And what style they are/how much they are worth? The seats were badly reupholstered and are not original. I plan on fixing the wood and reupholstering. thanks!
There are heywood wakefield chair with stretchers. For example:
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/seating/dining-room-chairs/eight-gilbe...
I believe what you were saying is that this model should not have stretchers.
if the serial numbers are preceded by a C or M, the chairs may be Heywood Wakefield. Pieces marked C followed by four numers are pre war production, M are post war. I agree that the only HW dining chairs I have seen with stretchers are the Rohde designed pieces in the link Leif provided.
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