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John Gloag (10 August 1896 – 17 July 1981) was an English writer in the fields of furniture design and architecture, as well as science and speculative fiction. [1] [2] Gloag served with the Welsh Guards during the First World War, and was invalided home after suffering gas poisoning.
As of 1891, Widdicomb Furniture Company shipped products throughout the United States. Their focus products included bed frames, chiffoniers, and bedroom furniture of various kinds made of oak, ash, birch and maple. [1] They also manufactured mirrors, nightstands, wardrobes, and other bedroom furniture. In 1906, pieces were designed in the ...
John Makepeace OBE FCSD (born John Makepeace Smith; 6 July 1939) is a British furniture designer and maker.Makepeace was born in Solihull, Warwickshire.He bought Parnham House, Dorset in 1976 and founded the Parnham Trust and the School for Craftsmen in Wood (opened 19 September 1977, later to become Parnham College) [1] [2] [3] to provide integrated courses in design, making and management ...
Federal furniture. Federal furniture refers to American furniture produced in the federal style period, which lasted from approximately 1789 to 1823 and is itself named after the Federalist Era in American politics (ca. 1788-1800). [1] Notable furniture makers who worked in the federal style included John and Thomas Seymour, Duncan Phyfe and ...
Aquilla Wilson (m. 1829) Furniture attributed to Day, North Carolina Museum of History. Thomas Day (c. 1801–1861) was an American furniture craftsman and cabinetmaker in Milton, Caswell County, North Carolina. [1] Born into a free African-American family in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, Day moved to Milton in 1817 and became a highly successful ...
Ince and Mayhew were a partnership of furniture designers, upholsterers and cabinetmakers, founded and run by William Ince (1737–1804) [1] and John Mayhew (1736–1811) in London, from 1759 to 1803; Mayhew continued alone in business until 1809. Their premises were located in Marshall Street but were listed in London directories in Broad ...
Nancy Bennett. John Jelliff armchair in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. John Jelliff (July 30, 1813 – July 2, 1893) was an American furniture designer and manufacturer, based in Newark, New Jersey during the second half of the 19th century. By the 1850s, John Jelliff & Co. had become the leading furniture manufacturer in New Jersey.
Furniture and furnishings in early modern and late medieval Scotland were made locally or imported, mostly from Flanders and France. Although few pieces of furniture survive from the early part of the period, a rich vocabulary and typology is preserved in inventories and wills. This documentary evidence in the Scots language details the homes ...