Designs for furniture and room settings

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Artist/Maker	Messrs. Waller & Sons (designers)
Place of origin	London (made)

Waller & Sons were a firm of decorators. They had premises in Lyall Street, Belgrave Square, London, and worked mainly for wealthy clients in Belgravia. The company provided a large number of designs in the Anglo-Japanese style in the 1870s. It kept up with the changes in fashion when the brief period of British Art Nouveau started in the 1890s. However, the designs for bookcases and cabinets shown here represent the mainstream taste of the period.

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Categories	Furniture Interiors
Object type	Design
Title	Designs for furniture and room settings (popular title)
Materials and techniques	Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour
Brief description	Designs for furniture. c.1895. Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour. Messrs Waller & Sons
Physical description	Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour
Dimensions	Height: 53cm Width: 37cm
Style	Victorian
Subjects depicted	Cabinets (Case Furniture) Bookcases
Summary	Waller & Sons were a firm of decorators. They had premises in Lyall Street, Belgrave Square, London, and worked mainly for wealthy clients in Belgravia. The company provided a large number of designs in the Anglo-Japanese style in the 1870s. It kept up with the changes in fashion when the brief period of British Art Nouveau started in the 1890s. However, the designs for bookcases and cabinets shown here represent the mainstream taste of the period.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.552:681-1975

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Record created	February 21, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O74877/designs-for-furniture-and-room-design-messrs-waller/

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