Campaign Chair

This chair was featured last month on Point, Click, Home and they tell us that Anthropologie worked with South African furniture makers to recreate the classic fold able, adaptable hardwood Roorkhee chair. It is an example of Anthropologie’s recent efforts to support South African artists and their creative community.
Campaign furniture is a type of furniture that was made for travel. Much of it was made for military campaigns and includes folding chairs and chests that could be easily unscrewed and packed. It was designed to be folded up, packed, and carried on the march, used by travelling armies since the time of Julius Caesar, and even earlier. With the rise and expansion of the British Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as British gentlemen came to dominate the army, government and commerce in colonies throughout the world, the finest British furniture makers produced for this new class of traveller some of the most stylish pieces of portable furniture ever made.