An eagle-eyed reader noticed this photograph on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery in London – Sir Winston Churchill in 1944 in North Africa with Area Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (sorry, needed to embrace the total identify) and Wladyslaw Anders, a Polish military basic.
And look! To Churchill’s proper is a superb instance of a Roorkhee chair with canvas covers. The chair has sq. blocks on the tops of the legs, a sort I’ve seen earlier than however by no means constructed. If my reminiscence serves me proper the toes end with considerably of a stake-like level, maybe to dig into the terrain.
After constructing about 25 Roorkhee chairs since researching my e-book “Marketing campaign Furnishings,” the amusing reality is that I haven’t constructed one for myself. I nonetheless have simply sufficient latigo leather-based and mahogany to do the job. I simply have to seek out the time.
Learn extra about this photograph from its description on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery right here.
— Christopher Schwarz
