Open armchair
workshop of Edward Gardiner (1880 - 1958)
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1950
Materials
Oak, rush
Measurements
107 x 60 x 42 cm
Place of origin
Warwickshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608296.2.2
Summary
An open armchair, one of a set of six oak rush-seated open armchairs, made by Edward Gardiner (1880 - 1958) of Warwickshire, circa 1950. This model retailed as 'The Russell'. Having five graduated splats, all with arched top edge and ogee-cut bottom edge, between turned uprights with integral finials. The front uprights topped by a short turned baluster through-tenoned into the flat curved arms. The legs simply turned and joined by a double baluster-turned front stretcher, pairs of simple side stretchers and a rear stretcher. -- 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