Maker/Retailer Biography

Benham and Froud

Dates: before 1855 - after 1893

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Copper and brass manufacturers, successors to Kepp & Co., copper and platinasmiths, at 40-42 Chandos Street, Charing Cross. They exhibited at the Paris 1855 and London 1862 exhibitions; a catalogue of 1874 gives their specialities as 'art metal and wood work'. Dresser designed for the firm from 1872 to 1893, and it was a supplier to the Art Furnishers' Alliance. C. L. Eastlake, S.J. Nicholl and O. W. Davis also made designs for the company. The relationship with Benham and Sons of Wigmore Street, whose chief designer, R. Norman Shaw, had been the architect of their works and produced medal-winning designs for the 1862 Exhibition is unclear.