A SET OF EIGHTEEN CREAM AND GREEN PAINTED DINING CHAIRSDESIGNED BY OLIVER MESSEL, MADE BY VICTOR AFIATo include twelve armchairs with pieced trelliswork and caned filled backs and seats with green swab cushions in fabric designed my Oliver Messel, with foliate carved fluted arm supports and ring turned tapering legs84cm high, 55cm width, 46cm depth; together with six armchairs to the same design, 88cm height, 59cm width, 49cm depthProvenance: Supplied by Oliver Messel for the Dining Room at FlaxleyLiterature:T. Messel, Oliver Messel: in the theatre of design, New York, 2011, p. 126-127, 'the Dining room' Chairs of the same design were used in the scheme for the formal living room at Maddox, Messel's Barbadian home.