London - Wardrobes and Armoires

This is an impressive antique George III flame mahogany breakfront secretaire wardrobe, circa 1780 in date.   The wardrobe has strong architectural lines and features an elegant moul...

This is an impressive antique Victorian Sheraton Revival flame mahogany, satinwood and boxwood breakfront wardrobe, by Marsh Jones Cribb & Co, of Leeds and Cavendish Square London, C...

No castle would be complete without a wardrobe in which to keep your royal robes (aka your pyjamas). A majestically beautiful addition to your dream bedroom, this piece is handcrafte...

This is a lovely antique high quality English George IV figured mahogany two door wardrobe, dating from Circa 1820. This wonderful tall two door wardrobe features a stepped moulded ...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), made by Guthrie and Wells. A Glasgow School Arts and Crafts stained green cypress wood wardrobe, with white opaque textured square glass details to the top. The central door and a large lower drawer with brass heart escutcheons and brass stylized foliate hinges and handles. The simple case construction and stained green cypress wood and grouping of square details are typical of Mackintosh's early work for Guthrie and Wells including items bought by William Davidson for his house Gladsmuir, Kilmacolm. The brass cabinet fittings are identical on a number of pieces, see Billcliffe, p. 33, fig. 1895.2 and 1895.3 for a washstand and dressing table designed by Mackintosh, also made by Guthrie and Wells. Also a white painted wardrobe/compactum. The overhanging cornice has been adapted with hinged flaps to move it up a narrow staircase. For a comparable piece see my other listing here for, C R Mackintosh...

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...

Designed and crafted by Danish designer Poul Hundevad this teak wardrobe is a wonderful piece of mid-century furniture. With its impressive size and gorgeous teak frame, the piece i...

Liberty & Co. attributed. An Arts & Crafts oak double wardrobe with stylized cut-outs to the shaped top and an unusual open display area above, retaining the original beveled mirror ...

Gillows. An Arts & Crafts Glasgow style Arts & Crafts oak treble wardrobe with ebony and walnut stylized floral inlays to the cornice and further leaf style inlays to the door tops a...

Gillow's of Lancaster, an Aesthetic Movement walnut armoire wardrobe compactum with lots of useful storage space. The moulded cornice and b...

Wylie and Lochhead of Glasgow. An Arts & Crafts Glasgow School oak three-piece bedroom suite with stylised floral inlays and silver plated handles throughout. Consisting of a double...

A splendid 'Howard & Sons' Douglas Fir wardrobe, stamped 'HOWARD & SONS BERNERS ST' and with paper label to the interior, late nineteenth century, with hanging rail and hooks fitted ...

E W Godwin, style of, a rare Anglo-Japanese walnut double armoire wardrobe compactum with Japonesque brass incised handles and lots of usefu...

Liberty and Co. attributed to Leonard F Wyburd,. A rare Arts and Crafts oak wardrobe with carved stylized floral details and hand wrought...

Romney Green, in the style of. An Arts & Crafts Cotswold School walnut bedside cabinet with a single drawer, an open area below and a chip carved door with ebonized handles, on shap...

E A Taylor attributed made by Wylie & Lochhead of Glasgow. An Arts & Crafts four-piece mahogany bedroom suite consisting of double wardrobe, dr...

Germany, circa 1825. A Berlin mahogany display cabinet having a stepped pediment inlaid with boxwood stringing above partially glazed doors divided...

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...

Ogdens of Manchester, in style of Dr C Dresser, An Aesthetic Movement treble wardrobe and matching bedside cupboard made from Ash with intricate ...

Lambs of Manchester, attributed. A rare Aesthetic Movement, unusually tall chest of drawers made from ash each drawer with stylized brass drop handles and ebonized inlaid rectangular details behind the back plates. Handcut dove tails to the drawers. All stood on a plinth base. A huge storage...