Maker/Retailer Biography

Holland & Sons

Dates: c. 1815-1968

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Furnishers in Mount Street, Mayfair. Established as Taprell & Holland, makers of high  quality furniture, the firm was employed at Osborne, Balmoral, Sandringham and Windsor. It supplied furniture for the New Palace of Westminster to Pugin's designs, along with John Webb and Gillow's. The firm showed at international exhibitions in Paris in 1855, London in 1862, Paris in 1867, Vienna in 1873, and Paris in 1878, winning many medals. B.J. Talbert was a designer from 1866, and the firm also made furniture to designs by C. Barry, G.E. Street, G. Semper, J.K. Collings, M.B. Adams and J. Bell.

With the recession in the 1890s the firm had to retrench and the Pimlico cabinet-making work shops were disposed of to Morris & Co.