Designer Biography

Daniel Cottier

Born: 1838

Died: 1891

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Cottier was born in Glasgow and apprenticed to a local stained glass manufacturer. After a spell in London in 1860, where he attended lectures by Ruskin and Ford Madox Brown, he returned to Scotland to work with stained glass manufacturers in Edinburgh. There he established his own studio in 1864. By 1867 he was back in Glasgow and had added decoration to his stained glass work. Two years later he returned to London to set up Cottier & Company, Art Furniture Makers, Glass and Tile Painters. B.J. Talbert was briefly a partner in the firm, alongside J. M. Brydon and W. Wallace. In 1873 he established a branch in New York, where he spent a good deal of his time. In the same year he expanded still further with a branch in Melbourne, Australia, which was largely run by his partner John Lamb Lyon. Cottier's work is featured in Clarence Cook's The House Beautiful (1878). Godwin-style designs were manufactured by Cottier's firm in the United States. The New York firm survived the founder's death by nearly quarter of a century, only closing in 1915.