Maker/Retailer Biography

Art Furniture Company

Dates: 1867-1868

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An architectural design partnership at 25 Garrick Street, Covent Garden. It was advertised in November 1867 as being 'prepared to supply at ordinary trade prices, domestic furniture of an artistic and picturesque character, designs by C. Eastlake, A. W. Blomfield and W. Godwin and other architects'. By June 1868 it was reported as having failed, although Building News illustrated a design for it by Godwin in 1871. Godwin's early domestic furniture was made by the company, and it is likely that Eastlake's designs from the first edition of Hints on Household Taste (1868) were also made by them. Clement Heaton was involved with the decoration of Eastlake's furniture and, along with A. W. Blomfield, designed portieres and curtains for the Art Furniture Co. Heaton, Butler & Bayne, also of Garrick Street, exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exhibition.