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Artist:
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George Walton
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Title:
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"Brussels" armchair
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Date:
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c. 1901
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Medium:
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Walnut, upholstery
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Dimensions:
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48 x 24 x 20 in. (121.92 x 60.96 x 50.8 cm)
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Credit Line:
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The Robert J. Ulrich Works of Art Endowment Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 334
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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.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Walton, George
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Role:
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Designer
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Nationality:
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Scottish
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Life Dates:
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Scottish, 1867-1933
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Classification:
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Furniture
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Physical Description:
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small chair with tall back rest with cutout heart at top; green-tan seat upholstery; flat armrests, curved on outer edges; plain tapering legs without horizontal supports
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Creation Place:
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, England, , ,
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Accession #:
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2005.19
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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