Minneapolis Institute of Art

Brussels armchair

Designer: George Walton

Date

c. 1901

Medium

Walnut, upholstery

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Architect and interior designer George Walton studied at the Glasgow School of Art before establishing a design firm in Glasgow in 1888. He decorated numerous homes and businesses in the Glagow area, including the Argyle Street tea-room and the Buchanan Street tea-rooms with Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Walton moved to London in 1897and from 1898 to 1902 he designed furnishings and shop-fronts for branches of the Kodak Camera Company in Brussels, Glasgow, Milan, Moscow, Leningrad, Vienna, and London, including this armchair for the Brussels shop. England, Europe

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