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Date: c. 1907
Dimensions: 96.5 x 48.9 x 40.6
Object Type: furniture
Material: wood and rush seat
Catalogue number: G47
Designer: Gimson, Ernest (1864 - 1919)
Maker: Gardiner, Edward ( - 1958)
Manufacturer: Daneway Workshops
Credit notes: Presented by Helen, Joyce and Evelyn Brooks, 1971

With its pair, a settle and armchair of matching design, the suite was commissioned by William Edward Brooks FRIBA (1879 – 1945) from the Daneway House workshops at the time of his marriage in 1907. All were made to Gimson’s design by Edward Gardiner. Purchased in 1971 with its original rush seating.

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Date: c. 1890
Dimensions: 69.8 x 42 x 42
Object Type: furniture
Material: wood and rush seat
Catalogue number: G46
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1970

Small corner chair with turned ebonised wood (possibly beech) framework, the two sides decorated with turned rails and two cruciform back supports, with removable rush seat, the legs tapering to small turned foot; the uprights, legs and rails decorated with narrow incised bands. Similar in style to the “Argylle” chairs (see plate 212 p. 136 “English Furniture 1880 – 1915” by Pauline Agius, published by Antique Collector’s Club, 1978) which appeared in Liberty’s catalogues c. 1890 “Dining Room and Library Furniture”, although these, like the Morris & Co. Sussex type rush-seated furniture, have rushing fastened directly to the wood framework, not a drop-in rush seat. Chairs with similar back design are published in Morris & Co. catalogues, but not this actual chair.

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