George Walton for John Rowntree's Cafe & Miss Cranston Tearooms. An Arts & Crafts Walnut Armchair
£5,500 £4,400
George Walton for John Rowntree's Café and Miss Cranston's Tearooms
An Arts and Crafts walnut armchair.
George Walton first designed this armchair, which had a cane seat and back, around 1896 — the year he began designing the interiors of fashionable tea rooms for the John Rowntree café in Scarborough and Miss Cranston’s Buchanan Street tea rooms in Glasgow.
Walton also used this design for Kodak's European branches, working for George Davison, who joined the Eastman Company in 1897. For Kodak, Walton designed the shop fronts, interiors, and furniture.
By 1908, Davison was able to commission George Walton to design him a house — the White House on the banks of the Thames at Shiplake, Oxfordshire — where he used this chair design again in the dining room.
Professionally reupholstered in a period Arts and Crafts fabric. There is an example in the V&A and also in the Kirkland Museum in Denver, Colorado, USA.
We have another one available to make a pair:
https://new.puritanvalues.com/product/georges-walton-for-john-rowntree-kate-cranstons-an-arts-and-crafts-armchair
Width: 23.23 in (59 cm)
Depth: 20.67 in (52.5 cm)
1890-1899
