Thats kinda the way of it in this stuff. You come across a single piece, buy it on spec, and fire it into the storage pit (here there be dragons...) while you figure out what it matches. Sometimes it does match a piece we have and we build up a suite, or at least a pair of matched pieces.
Other times, we have to just accept that its and orphan.
Anyway, by good luck we managed to end up with the Twins. One I know came from Avondale, but I don't remember where the other is from. Jos did the upholstery for them ages back and we had a go at refinishing the frame of one with a satin polyurethane finish. It looked ok!
Then - true to form - they sat around a while. This gave us time to procrastinate. Which is good, since that takes a lot of time.
Our recent flush of excitement brought them out again. After all, they are nearly finished. We decided to go with the full strip and furniture oil finish for the frames, so all the hard work of 'urethaning the one frame went west...
It was worth it though. What do you reckon?
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