Our Chair of the Month for October is this mid 20th century dining chair by Owen Haines’ factory in High Wycombe.

Underneath the seat are the initials ‘OH’, handwritten in ink. It was previous catalogued as being possibly made by Owen Harris. However, we’ve been doing some work across our chair collection, and we think ‘Owen Harris’ was a mistake and that this chair was in fact made by Owen Haines. Other chairs in our collection by Owen Haines have the same handwritten initials.

We know that Owen Haines’s factory was in Jubilee Road and Green Street from about 1907 until the 1960s. There is no record of an Owen Harris making chairs. Owen Haines was the last chair factory owner to be mayor of High Wycombe, 1960-61.

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Chair of the Month is a partnership between Wycombe Museum and the Regional Furniture Society.