
Appraisal: Warren McArthur Chair, ca. 1935
Clip: Season 29 Episode 8 | 2m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: Warren McArthur Chair, ca. 1935
Check out John Sollo's appraisal of a Warren McArthur chair, ca. 1935, in Living History Farms, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: Warren McArthur Chair, ca. 1935
Clip: Season 29 Episode 8 | 2m 12sVideo has Closed Captions
Check out John Sollo's appraisal of a Warren McArthur chair, ca. 1935, in Living History Farms, Hour 2.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipGUEST: I bought it at an auction.
It was something I spied right away, and I waited until the very end of the auction when they said, "Bring up whatever you want."
And I brought it up and bought it for five dollars.
APPRAISER: So you know who made this chair?
GUEST: Warren McArthur Company.
APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.
Warren McArthur is one of my personal favorites.
I love Warren McArthur.
Matter of fact, when I saw you pull up with this in the back of your wagon, I was just ecstatic.
I don't believe we've ever had a piece of Warren McArthur on the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW ever.
GUEST: Wow!
APPRAISER: You are the very first.
GUEST: Wow.
APPRAISER: McArthur really takes on this minimalist form, which I think this piece really, really demonstrates.
One of the few excesses he ever did were-were, were these pieces.
And again, that's why when you brought this up in the back of your wagon, I thought, Warren McArthur.
I can't believe it.
This piece has a label that clearly shows "Warren McArthur".
He and his brother did a lot of design work.
His brother designed the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix.
Warren makes tables, chairs, sofas, settees, love seats, all that type of stuff.
He makes them for the Biltmore.
And it's almost all made out of aluminum, so it's very light to pick up.
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: Probably, this was part of a set.
It was probably a dining room set.
There might have been six of them or eight of them.
His furniture was one of the very first things to become really actively collected in the modern period.
GUEST: Oh.
APPRAISER: So Eames and Nelson...
GUEST: Mm-hmm.
APPRAISER: ...and Knoll furniture sometimes, but Warren McArthur was right there with them.
It's not easily found either.
GUEST: I love mid-century modern.
APPRAISER: Mm-hmm.
GUEST: And I love Deco.
APPRAISER: Yeah.
GUEST: So it just kind of grabbed me.
APPRAISER: Well, it's sort of a, an odd amalgamation of the two, right?
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: This was probably made in 1930s, it's a cool piece.
The modern market is very forgiving about replacing parts.
For instance, this being reupholstered.
It doesn't make any difference at all as far as the price is concerned.
At auction, this chair probably bring between $1,200 and $1,800.
GUEST: Oh, wow.
APPRAISER: Yeah, so you did okay.
GUEST: Yeah, yeah.
APPRAISER: You did really well.
There you go.
GUEST: It's great.
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