Magazine Archive

Original magazine pages, furniture catalogues, photographs and working documents preserved from a family archive. Where the source material is uncertain, we say so and leave the original wording in place rather than filling the gap with a guess.

All Photographs Catalogues Documents
Printed gilt-tooled leather bound book Archive no. 014

What an Old Furniture Catalogue Can Teach Us About Decorating

Catalogue, 1948 · 3 min read A carved black walnut sideboard of about 1853, its upper tier crowned with scrollwork and its cupboard doors mounted with high-relief carvings of game and fruit. Archive no. 011

1948: The Rise of the Sideboard

Catalogue pages · 2 min read Rocking chair in maple, pine and mahogany Archive no. 009

One Sitting Room, Forty Years Apart

Photographs · 2 min read Side chair in oak with brass and embossed leather upholstery Archive no. 006

Upholstery Notes in a Steady Hand, 1962

Documents · 2 min read