Dressing table
Agnes Garrett (1845 - 1935)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Satinwood, kingwood, silvered metal handles, palm wood, mirror glass, oak carcass
Measurements
145 x 122 x 57.5 cm
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Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 1213969
Summary
A satinwood and kingwood-crossbanded dressing table, designed by Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, circa 1880. Part of a two-piece bedroom suite, this breakfront dressing table with a bevelled oval swing-frame mirror bewteen uprights with urn finials, the top surface with palm wood edge, above a central frieze drawer flanked by deeper drawers, all with silvered metal oval handles depicting a thistle design on the backplates, standing on slender square tapering legs with castors. En suite with dressing table NT 1213970.
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.
Provenance
Originally commissioned for the Beale's London home in Holland Park and subsequently brought to Standen after 1912.
Makers and roles
Agnes Garrett (1845 - 1935), designer Rhoda Garrett (1841 - 1882), designer