I stumbled across a rather interesting bunch of periodicals that Cornell University Library has scanned in and posted on the web which may help us to identify some more Victorian period furniture makers.
In LINK:this article from 1878, called Household Art at the Centennial, the following makers are named:
Marcotte
Pottier & Stymus
Volmer (or Vollmer, as Styles of American Furniture has it)
Kimbel & Cabus
Brown & Bliss
Moore & York
The last two are not mentioned in Styles of American Furniture; does anyone know them?
Another article, Culture and Progress is from the May 1874 issue of Scribner's Monthly. This article discusses a furniture store called Cottier & Co. which apparently carried high end furniture and another store called Sypher's which catered to those with a thinner wallet. This article mentions Herter, Roux and Marcotte.
Here is a catalog of chairs from 1890 from a maker called Wilson & Hechinger of Baltimore.
I'll add more to this thread as I come across them.
Cornell University Library articles mentioning Victorian Furniture makers
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Victorian Furniture thread on victorianforum.com · started December 15, 2008 by TexMac · 7 posts, 3 image attachments · discussion in 2008.
I stumbled across a rather interesting bunch of periodicals that Cornell University Library has scanned in and posted on the web which may help us to identify some more Victorian period furniture makers. In LINK:this article from 1878, called Household Art at the Centennial,…
Here's an advertisement for Roux & Co.
Link
From:
Scribner's magazine. / Volume 11, Issue 6
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Publication Date: June, 1892
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From:
Scribner's magazine. / Volume 11, Issue 6
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons Publication Date: June, 1892
Cottier & Company were an English firm who opened a New York branch in the early-1870s. Their oeuvre was "art furniture" and decoration both of domestic and public buildings, including churches; Daniel Cottier may be best known as a stained glass artist. Cottier's furniture designs were influenced by Talbert and Godwin, which garnered them the favorable notice of the critic and influential taste-maker Clarence Cook. Cook wrote about and featured illustrations of their furniture in his Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks essays for Scribners from 1875-1877 (which were complied in The House Beautiful: Essays on Beds and Tables, Stools and Candlesticks in 1878).
Brown and Bliss were another New York firm, who coincidentally also produced furniture influenced by the designs of Bruce Talbert. Their exhibit at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition can be seen in this photograph.
Brown and Bliss were another New York firm, who coincidentally also produced furniture influenced by the designs of Bruce Talbert. Their exhibit at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition can be seen in this photograph.
Ah, thanks, PeacockRoom!
Attached is another ad from Ransom for Moorish fretwork and a couple of RJ Horner ads.
Attached is another ad from Ransom for Moorish fretwork and a couple of RJ Horner ads.
I have the original "American Homes and How To Furnish Them" referenced in both R.J. Horner ads. Viewable here. TexMac, do you remember the dates on those ads? I've been wanting to confirm the date of the Horner pamphlet.
Note to self: need to get a Ransom piece. Way too cool.
Note to self: need to get a Ransom piece. Way too cool.
The first one is definitely 1888. Link here.
I seem to have neglected to date the second one. I'll dig around and see if I can find it.
I seem to have neglected to date the second one. I'll dig around and see if I can find it.