I like it and think I would leave it just as it is!

The wood carving is beautiful and I love the nailhead trim. My uneducated guess, no value per se, 1920's, if it was reupholstered it would have a value of about $400 - $600. I see a LOT of these types of chairs @ thrift stores for $20. The seat is too low to be comfortable. It's not rare. I DO LOVE it!

You should post it on the "Antiques" forum.

Beautiful chair and the upholstery fabric is lovely. Well done— that is a fine example of upcycling! I like a lower chair myself, and the height doesn’t make a difference in a non-dining chair.

Marti, I get it ! We had a little footstool for our elderly dog who passed away last year ❤️

Value and worth are personal. Value as in is this a rare piece? Nope. Lots of them around. Dime a dozen. But, it seems like a fantastic piece for you because it looks beautiful and your pups can sit and look out the window. I'm sure the tufting and nail heads were expensive.

I had a low vintage chair that was my grandmother's. My dog destroyed it as it became his daily sitting chair to look out the window and over the years the fabric wore thin and stuffing came out. I wanted to reupholster it for people use and my entire family stood up for the dog saying it was unfair I was taking away his chair!

Rehab it with a high-performance fabric this time like Sunbrella.

Nicole, per your suggestion I posted on Antiques and learned Linda C has died. She always so nicely tried to be helpful.

What sad news about Linda C. Her replies in the Antiques forum were always worth a read.

I love chairs like this. It looks like early 1900 French Ladies resting chair. Popular for lounging at balls because gowns were big and heavy with corsets where breathing was difficult? The cushion is not sized properly. It probably would cost more to redo it with labor and fabric and new cushion insert that fits chair properly. Ladies were much shorter in those days too. Antiques are making a rebound. Gen Zs are finding values and much better base craftsmanship than imported stuff on market today.

I like Eld6161's suggestion of using a performance fabric to reupholster, and I think I'd consider a smooth back rather than the tufting. I like the chair -- it reminds me of one my grandmother had - which most likely dates it to the 20s, 30s, 40s. It is a very heavy chair.

Hi Flo. I’d love it to be an antique. Pretty certson its not, though. As I mentioned above, the cushion fits perfrctly…it was shifted by a pup and I didn’t correct it for pic. Hmm, I may need to get her a little Aussie sized ball gown. 😳

If It were done over, I , too, might eliminate the tufting, lascat . Im just unsure about reupholstering it again.

It is an antique. If you can tip it onto it’s side, I can get better look. Are there holes in bottom of legs? This chair might have had casters which would add to explanation of low seat. It is odd combination of wing style back but Bergere style chair. Also Bergere chairs often have fitted cushions like yours but not with tufted backs. It looks like you or someone put a lavender velvet back on the chair. One option might be to redo just the cushion and arm rests in a similar velvet along with arm pads. That would be less expensive and doggies would love it! I will post some examples. Bbl

There are lots of chairs out there to compare your chair to. Are there any markings on bottom of chair? Labels? It would take sone further investigating to be sure of history of your chair. Fun to research this though. Even if it’s a reproduction, once they are 50 plus years old, they are generally considered antiques as well.

It’s a pretty chair, but if it’s just for dogs, I am not sure I’d invest what will probably be $1000+ to have it reupholstered. From the pics, the only damage I can see is on the one arm. Could you get by with having the upholstery cleaned and maybe do something creative to cover the arm tear?

https://www.hareinthechair.com/post/707610750617845760/how-to-use-visible-mending-to-repair-pet-damaged

It's a lovely chair. If it fits in your space and you enjoy it, who cares whether it has monetary value?

Ladies were much shorter in those days too.

Some of us still are.

But seriously, do you know why we have free lunches in school now? During WW2 a huge % of men were rejected from military service because of diet-related conditions -- they just weren't fed well enough as children, and that can't be "made up" as an adult.. Enter school lunch, which gave kids at least one solid hot meal every day. It's one of the reasons we're larger than previous generations.

It’s a pretty chair, but if it’s just for dogs, I am not sure I’d invest what will probably be $1000+ to have it reupholstered.

I totally see where you're coming from, but -- even if it's a dog's chair -- it's in a very visible spot in the house. Still, I'd start by draping a throw over the "injured" arm.

I generally think any piece of furniture that is over about 40-50 years old and still has a solid frame is worth recovering, but I would see if maybe you could just recover the arms, or arms and back in new coordinating fabric rather than the whole thing.

But I also think that reupholstery of a piece of furniture that you like is like framing a piece of art that you like, or having to buy custom lampshades for a lamp that you like. I don't think that I have paid more for any piece of art than I have paid to have it framed. I have lamps where the shades cost more than the bases. (Although all my lamp bases are worth a lot more than I paid for them, so it was worth it.

I also remember seeing a picture where there was a room with a pair of very expensive Knole sofas (the one with the hinged arms connected by the tasseled ropes) and one of the arms had been destroyed by a cat on each, and they were just living with it. I am not sure that I would want that front and center but I sit on a chair that has holes worn through the leather down to be padding and I haven't been in any hurry to recover it.

I do like the idea of the visible repair.

The other thing that I want to point out is that while you could get a new chair for less than the cost of the reupholstery, what are you getting?

It doesn't necessarily matter what it is worth on the resale market, what matters to some extent is the cost to get an identical chair. I have two Baker tub chairs 50 odd years old that are scaled like LR chairs used to be, a little smaller than now. They weigh more than a bigger, more modern chair, Much more than a Rooms to Go or Wayfair type of chair of the same size.

At an auction or a resale market they would not have a great deal of value. But a closely comparable chair lists at about $6-7000, (although most people do not end up paying list) and I asked the upholsterer, who also makes frames from scratch or rebuilds frames, and he said probably $7000 ... so there's that. It's kind of like buying a turn of the 20th c. house in good condition, you are paying much less than it would actually cost to build it now.

Is it sturdy? Do you like the look? Yes, redo, no matter the cost. My big regret is that in the 90’s I had a two piece sectional I loved and a couch-love seat-ottoman I also loved. Hubby overwhelmed me and we got rid of the sectional for my parents crap and the living room set wore out. I cannot buy anything like it again and nothing fits the house.

My parent’s crap is good stuff, but has never fit and I am stuck with it over 20 years later. No one sells what I want any more. We are short and everything is for someone over 6 feet!

I actually think its “newer”. A Louis XV reproduction from the 1950’s.

Flo and pal, you’ve piqued my curiosity. Someone is napping. I’ll do some investigating when the little darling arises. 😂. BTW, the back material was originally a sort of camel. Its now an infortunate mauve-lavender. Theresa, very interrsting history. ty.

Flo, thank you for all the chair pics. I see most do not have the wings. my chair legs do have ( filled) holes, but no info underneath. PinkP , 1950’s? Interesting. BTW, 100 years used to be the antique criteria , no more? Discussing with you all has helped me decide. I will keep it in its useful place, a throw over the damaged arm, until I come across a replacement. A born and raised southerner, I’m not overly bothered with shabby._but this style isn’t chic to me, or maybe its Too Chic 😛 Hmm, I think you my have some southern genes , pal ;)

I only say 40-50 years old not for any classification like antique or anything but because I feel like furniture quality started going downhill after the late 1980s and especially after 2000.