Wardrobe
Agnes Garrett (1845 - 1935)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1880
Materials
Satinwood, kingwood, palmwood, boxwood, silvered metal, oak carcass.
Measurements
223.5 x 128 x 59.5 cm
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Standen House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 1213970
Summary
A satinwood and kingwood-crossbanded wardrobe, designed by Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, circa 1880. Part of a two-piece bedroom suite, this wardrobe with dentil-moulded cornice surmounted by a swan-neck pediment and enclosed by a pair of full length doors, each with segmentally-veneered upper oval panel and lower square panel, the sides with twin rectangular panels, all the panels banded with a strip of palmwood within kingwood crossbanding and boxwood stringing, with a long frieze drawer below having oval silvered metal handles depicting a thistle on the backplates and standing on swept bracket feet. En suite with dressing table NT 1213969.
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