Edwardian Bedroom Furniture

Waring and Gillows. In the style of George Walton. A rare Glasgow style Arts & Crafts oak wardrobe with a matching dressing table combined with a well balanced use of chequered inla...

Bruce Talbert (1838-1881) for Gillow and co., a rare and important walnut, amboyna, ebonized, and gilt bedroom suite, each with differing carved rosettes, comprising: a triple mirror door wardrobe, 208cm high, 208cm wide, 58cm deep; a pair of bedside lockers, 85cm high, 38cm wide; and a pair of single bedsteads, 124cm wide Provenance: The famous Argentinian writer and suffragette Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979), bought from her estate and shipped back from Argentina. Bruce James Talbert originally trained as a carver and then an architect, and he became an influential and very successful furniture designer. He served an apprenticeship in Dundee and had his own carving business for two years where he learned the skills to apply carved details to furniture and then joined the architectural offices of Charles Edward. In 1856 he moved to Glasgow and worked for the architects W. N. Tait and Campbell Douglas. He moved to Manchester in the early 1860s, where he gained employment with the cabinetmakers Doveston, Bird, and Hull, which was short-lived, then moved to Coventry gaining work with Skidmore's Art Manufactures. In 1863 he won the competition to design the masthead for 'The Building News and in the mid-1860s moved to London, where he started designing furniture for Holland and Sons. His 'Pericles' Gothic sideboard was displayed on their stand at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867 where it was the Grand Prix winner. It was at this point that his most prolific period began and also when he started designing furniture for Gillows of Lancaster in 1868. in the same year, he published his very influential first book 'Gothic Forms Applied to Furniture, Metal Work and Decoration for Domestic Purposes', which he dedicated to George Edmund Street. This was followed in 1876 by 'Examples of Ancient and Modern Furniture, Metalwork, Tapestries and Modern Furniture' and in 1881 by 'Fashionable Furniture. Other companies he designed for were Marsh, Jones and Cribb, Jackson and Graham, and for a short time, was a partner with Daniel Cottier. He designed textiles for Templeton's, Warner's, Cowlishaw, and Barbour and Miller; carpet designs for Templeton's and Brinton and Co.; and his wallpaper designs were printed by Jeffrey and Co. He also designed church metalwork and furniture for Cox and Sons...

Matrioska Bedside table is a modern piece for contemporary interior design projects. The exceptional geometric design of this modern nightstand allows it to become an essential piece of your bedroom decor. Materials: Body in gloss Lacquer Beige, bird eye wood...

For FULL item description click on CONTINUE READING at the bottom of this page. Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A Pair of Henredon Nightstands...

Sn5322 Superb quality Edwardian cabinet, having shaped upstand to figured mahogany top with satinwood crossbanding and moulded edge above crossbanded...

A fabulous pair of Octagonal fronted burr walnut nightstands/bedside cabinets. A very distinctive pair of Art Deco nightstands octagonally fron...

Pair of danish teak chest of drawers / bedside tables. Design by Arne Vodder for Vamo Sønderborg. The small drawer can be placed anywhere in one of the compartments. Denmark, 1960s.

A pair of black walnut hand-crafted nightstands, or end tables, in the midcentury modernist style. Constructed from finest American black walnut with the inner dovetailed jointed dra...

Coppia di comodini in ottone con piano in opalina nero e 2 cassetti. I fianchi e il frontale sono decorati con elementi circolari in ottone martellato. Interno rivestito di recente i...

An English Art Deco four-piece burr walnut and rosewood crossbanded bedroom suite attributed to H & L Epstein and dating to circa 1925. Typically stylish and of superb quality it comprises: A four-door fitted wardrobe with a rare additional internal door providing triple dressing mirrors...

A pair of Scandinavian night stands / side tables in pine, made in Denmark, circa in 1970s by an unknown cabinetmaker. These night stands come with drawers and some angled corners. ...

Louis XVI style bunk beds, hand carved and hand finished in an off-white, antique finish. Takes a mattress size: 90cm x 200cm (3ft x 6ft6'). The beds come with an extra set of legs, ...