Robert Manwaring Robert Manwaring Robert Manwaring was an English 18th century furniture designer and cabinet maker. The dates of his birth and death are unknown. He was a contemporary and imitator of Thomas Chippendale, and not the least considerable of his rivals. He prided himself upon work which he described as "genteel", and his speciality was chairs. He manifests the same surprising variations of quality that are noticed in the work of nearly all the English cabinet-makers of the second half of the 18th century, and while his best had an undeniable elegance, his worst was exceedingly bad: squat, ill-proportioned and confusing.
William Chippendale William Chippendale William Chippendale (1730s-1802) was an English merchant who was active in Copenhagen from the late 1750s through the mid-1780s. His frim traded on the Danish West Indies. He owned the Andreas Bjørn House at Strandgade 46 in Copenhagen from 1766 and established the sugar refinery Union House on the property in collaboration with a group of planters from St. Croix in the Danish West Indies. Chippendale was born in England, possibly Yorkshire. in the 1830s. He came to Copenhagen in the late 1850s where he purchased a no longer existing property in Overgaden oven Vandet 54 in Christianshavn