Seats of power and divine recliners

Reclining Minotaur by Ostinelli and Priest
A Louis XV Beechwood fauteuil signed by Meunier

A sneak preview of Timeless, the Irish Antique Dealers Association Fair, offers two very different sides of the collector’s coin.

For the connoisseur, the question isn’t so much ‘are you sitting comfortably?’, but rather ‘what of your chair’s pedigree?’ Furniture by French cabinet maker Etienne Meunier can be found in museums across the world, from Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum to the JP Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The first ...