Stool
Agnes Garrett (1845 - 1935)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Walnut, Utrecht velvet
Measurements
23.5 x 34 x 34.5 cm
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Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 1213940.2
Summary
One of a pair of rectangular walnut stools, English, designed by Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, circa 1880. Each with reeded surround inset with Utrecht velvet seat, above panelled friezes and standing on square tapering panelled legs headed with roundels.
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