Ladderback chair
workshop of Edward Gardiner (1880 - 1958)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1950
Materials
Oak, rush
Measurements
98 x 43 x 40.5 cm
Place of origin
Warwickshire
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608296.1.4
Summary
A ladderback chair, one of a set of eleven oak and rush-seated ladderback chairs, made by Edward Gardiner (1880 - 1958) of Warwickshire, circa 1950. Having four arched horizontal splats, between turned uprights with integral finials. With rush seat raised on four simply turned legs joined by simple turned stretchers. -- Edward Gardiner partnered Ernest Gimson (1864 - 1919) in Daneway, Gloucestershire, where they opened a chair-making workshop together in 1903. Gimson designed the chairs whilst Gardiner turned and rushed them.
Provenance
Ordered from Edward Gardiner by Sir George Trevelyan, Principal of the Shropshire Adult Education College at Attingham Park, for use in the Students' Dining Room. A gift to the National Trust from the Shropshire Adult Education College when it left Attingham in the 1970s.
Makers and roles
workshop of Edward Gardiner (1880 - 1958), chairmaker