Victorian furnishers and decorators Collinson & Lock were a model of the art furniture business of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This book is the first wide-ranging study of this once highly important company. It will give insights into the workings and productions of a London furnishing business in the period. It also provides information on a wide variety of topics including furniture design developments, interior design styles, business practices, working practices and techniques, and the firm-s customers and competitors.
Clive Edwards first considers the structure of the London -art furniture- trade and its development to locate the firm in its community. He then traces the growth of the firm-s business, its involvement with important international exhibitions, the designers they worked with, and the furniture and interiors they produced.
This important book then outlines and discusses Collinson & Lock-s creations ranging from seminal pieces that were
