Chair
Designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852)
Manufactured (probably) by John Gregory Crace (1809-1889)
c.1860
Height 47" (89 cm); width 18" (46 cm); depth 22" (56 cm)
Walnut
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Crace, head of the long-established family firm of interior decorators and furnishers (see Aldrich), was Pugin's usual collaborator on such items, including those designed for the Palace of Westminster. He was a cultured and well-travelled man as well as an entrepreneur, and was able to restore the fortunes of the firm after a period of decline, so that it "was once more a byword for good taste and high quality" (Hill 315). — JB.
Sources
Aldrich, Mary Brewster, compiler.
Hill, Rosemary. God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2008. [Review]
Whiteway, Michael. A. W. N. Pugin 1812-1852: An Exhibition Catalogue. London: The Fine Art Society with Haslam & Whiteway Ltd., 7-23 December 2011.
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Last modified 17 February 2022