Rare Charles Dudouyt Chairs - Set of 4

Collectors chase Charles Dudouyt, and a matched set of four attributed to him is the kind of thing that rarely surfaces at all. Found in Le Mans and dating to the 1940s, they are oak, tall ladder-backs crowned with turned ball finials above deep rush seats, on round legs braced by plain stretchers. Dudouyt's gift was to make prized design look as though it came from a farmhouse, oak and rush worked into something far more coveted than the country chair it resembles. Sylvie sets them around a simple wood table, where their tall backs and round finials do all the work a plain room needs.