Designer Biography

John Dando Sedding

Born: 1838

Died: 1891

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Sedding spent time in G. E. Street's office, and with his brother Edmund (d. 1868) in Penzance, before setting up his own practice in London in 1874.  An admirer of Pugin and Ruskin, he was a designer of embroideries (executed by the Leek Embroidery Society), wallpapers and church metalwork. His metalwork was made by Barkentin & Krall and Longden & Co., whose London showrooms were in the same building as Sedding's offices. Jeffrey & Co. showed wallpapers by Sedding, among others, at the Architectural Association in 1883. He was a member of the Art Workers' Guild and its Master in 1886 and 1887. He showed his 'Westminster' and 'Jacobean' wallpapers at the first Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society show in 1888. His pupils included Ernest Gimson, Alfred Powell, and Henry Wilson, who took over the architectural practice on Sedding's death from influenza.