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Chair
(1886)
Medium
mahogony, thya wood, wool, silk thread, jute, (other materials)
Measurements
128.3 × 46.4 × 59.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1975
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Mackmurdo was an architect and designer and founder of the Century Guild in 1882, one of the first late nineteenth-century arts and crafts organisations to be established. He was also a member of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, established a few years later. Members of the Century Guild produced designs for a range of media, including upholstered furniture, metalwork, textiles, wallpaper and enamels which were manufactured by outside firms. Much of their design work was inspired by the natural world and foreshadowed Art Nouveau design a decade later.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Manchester, England
Inscription
impressed (inverted) in inside rim of base u.c.: E. GOODALL & Co / MANCHESTER
Accession Number
D150.2-1975
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Physical description
Upholstered back rises to elaborate cresting of inlaid oval of figured veneer with horizontal pediment.