Aizdu Bamboo Co. (1894-1896)
Aizdu Bamboo Co.
London; bamboo furniture manufacturer (fl.1894-96)
Recorded at 93 Rivington Street, Curtain Road and 204 New North Road, London. In December 1894 the firm advertised special preparations for Christmas in the form of ‘novelties and knick-knacks in bamboo’. A cabinet and table made by the company is illus. Walkling (1979), p. 53. They claimed in the 1896 issue of the Cabinet Maker and Art Furnisher to be producing ‘bamboo furniture of a medium class... for those people who abstain from buying bamboo furniture because they can not afford the most expensive, and will not trust that offered at a lower figure... that is to say that on the one hand they do not cultivate the very best qualities, and on the other will not allow the reliability of their goods to suffer in order to bring them out at lower prices than are consistent with honest workmanship’. Some time after 1896 the firm became known as Matthews & Clark.
Source: Walkling, Antique Bamboo Furniture (1979).
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