The cherry on the cake

This rare and magnificent set of of two armchairs in cherrywood can be interlocked to form a chaise longue; one of them has a high back and the other a low one. They are designed (and signed) by Andre Goult and dated 1921, and caught my eye in Vallois on the rue de Seine, in Paris.

But moving swiftly along.....they cost USD313,000 so the interest level didn't last too long. And I don't normally like furniture from the 20s, well certainly of the more obvious Deco variety, and that too was a good enough reason to justify not getting out my Visa card. Perhaps if they'd been in something a bit more seductive than the chocolate brown velvet.

Well, perhaps not even then.