Georges Walton for John Rowntree & Kate Cranstons. An Arts & Crafts Armchair
£5,500 £4,400
George Walton for John Rowntree's Café and Miss Cranston's Tearooms
An Arts and Crafts armchair.
George Walton first designed this armchair, originally with 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 shop fronts, interiors, and furniture. By 1908, Davison commissioned Walton to design him a house, the White House, on the banks of the Thames at Shiplake, Oxfordshire, where this chair design appeared again in the dining room.
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/george-walton-for-john-rowntrees-cafe-miss-cranston-tearooms-an-arts-and-crafts-walnut-armchair
Width: 23.23 in (59 cm)
Depth: 17.72 in (45 cm)
1900-1909
