Sofa
Agnes Garrett (1845 - 1935)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Utrecht velvet, oak and burr oak legs, brass ball toes
Measurements
73.5 x 228.5 cm
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Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 1213939
Summary
A large sofa, English, designed by Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, circa 1880. Upholstered in Utrecht velvet, the rectangular back with three squab cushions, the arms overswept and the seat standing on panelled tapering oak and burr oak legs headed with roundels and terminating in brass ball toes.
Full description
Cousins Rhoda (1841-1882) and Agnes Garrett (1845-1935) trained in the architectural office of J.M. Brydon before setting up their own interior design company in 1875 which aimed to bring fresh designs to a wider middle-class public. Together they wrote and published 'Suggestions for House Decoration' in 1876, part of the 'Art at Home' series of interior decoration and household taste manuals published by Macmillan. They also decorated 4, Upper Berkeley Street, the home of Agnes's sister, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first English woman permitted to qualify as a doctor.
Makers and roles
Agnes Garrett (1845 - 1935), designer Rhoda Garrett (1841 - 1882), designer