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Pugin is famous for his work as an architect and furniture designer. During the 19th century, he was one of the leading figures of the Gothic Revival movement, which reintroduced elements of Gothic design into then-modern structures and furnishings. In addition to creating furniture, he created the designs for numerous UK buildings, including Big Ben, the Grange, St Augustine's Church and St Giles’ Church. Explore a diverse assortment of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin furniture on 1stDibs.
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A W N Pugin. Gothic Revival Four Door Pitch Pine Wardrobe with Linenfold Panels
By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Located in London, GB
A W N Pugin. Made by John Gregory Crace.
A rare Gothic Revival four-door pitch pine wardrobe with hand-carved fleur de ley finials flanked with castellated...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Gothic Revival Wardrobes and Armoires
Materials
Pine
A W N Pugin, A Rare Oak Armchair Probably Designed for the Speaker's House
By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Located in London, GB
A W N Pugin. An extremely rare oak armchair probably designed for the The Red Drawing Room in the Speaker's House in The Palace Of Westminster, the room is...
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Antique 1850s English Gothic Revival Armchairs
Materials
Oak
AWN Pugin, Six Gothic Revival Oak Dining Chairs Probably for the House of Lords
By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in London, GB
A W N Pugin, made by Gillows of Lancaster. Stamped Gillows to the back legs.
A set of six Gothic Revival oak dining chairs probably designed for the House of Lords...
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Gothic Revival Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Oak
$3,798 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pugin Bookcase
By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Located in Greenwich, CT
An early 19th century Gothic oak bookcase, the rectangular crenellated top with octafoil panels filled with carved roses, fleur de lis, and a portcullis on a tudor rose back panel above a cavetto frieze mounted with carved oak leaves above two doors, each with two Gothic arched apertures filled with unique metal grilles, enclosing three adjustable shelves to each side, the base section with two blind arcaded doors enclosing an adjustable shelf, on a double plinth base, the lower plinth later, the interior stamped twice 'CLAREMONT', the reverse inscribed in ink 'Mr Young 18.5'.
Provenance:
Supplied for the Palace of Westminster but by 1866 recorded at Claremont House, Esher. This robust Gothic bookcase, enriched with Elizabethan cusped tracery and heraldically-charged castellations, is conceived in the William IV romantic English manner introduced as the ‘New Palace of Westminster’ style, with the collaboration in the mid-1830s of the architects Charles Barry (d. 1860) and A.W.N. Pugin (d. 1852). Westminster Palace’s ‘fort portcullis’ badge is displayed in cusped tablets within embattled parapets, which are flowered with the English cinquefoile rose.
This bookcase appears to be a precursor for the more florid bookcases designed for the New Palace by Pugin in the mid-1840s. It may possibly have been intended for the King’s Tower (now called the Victoria Tower).
Pugin established a furniture manufactory in Convent...
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Antique Early 19th Century English Gothic Revival Bookcases
Materials
Brass
$65,000
A.W.N Pugin and Sir Charles Barry, an Important Gothic Revival Oak Library Table
By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Located in London, GB
A.W.N Pugin and Sir Charles Barry.
A rare and important Gothic Revival carved oak library table. Probably one of the earliest known pieces to derive fro...
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Antique 1830s English Gothic Revival Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Oak
Large Victorian Gothic Minton tile designed by A. W. N. Pugin in ebonised frame
By Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
Located in Tunbridge Wells, GB
Large 12" square Minton polychrome tile designed by A. W. N. Pugin in ebonised oak frame. Minton tiles of this scale are relatively rare.
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century British Gothic Revival Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
