The Ladder-back chair, Chippendale?or Affick? NO a Bodger.

                                                          Phillip Clissett was a "badger" (A Pole lathe Turner, 1895)

Phillip Clissett was a  English "badger".  A man who made chairs from green wood, with rush seats.  Who was making around: 1895. His pole turned ladder-back chair.  Was adopted from an earlier date.  His design was adopted by others after him? To create the Chair we Know today. Clissett’s rush seat. Was replaced by a timber seat, but all the other essentials where adopted.

 Researched By: The V & A Museum, London. 

                                                                                                                The V & A Museum, London. 

                                                                                                                  Notice his chair at the back. 

                                                                                                                'The American Ladder-Back Chair'

                                                                   The Ladder- Back Chair designed  by: Chippy Wood, ( in The year Dot) The  Bodger.