Alexander & Howell (1877-1900)
Alexander & Howell
Glasgow, Scotland; cabinet makers and carvers & gilders (fl.c.1877-1900)
Listed at 108 St Vincent Street, Glasgow in TheFurniture Gazette Directory (1877) as cabinet makers and carvers & gilders. The firm specialised in producing ‘Jacobethan’ and Louis XV style furniture and in 1883 was recorded as fitting up and furnishing the dining salon of the steamship ‘Sirio’ [The Furniture Gazette, 23 June 1883].
At the Health Exhibition 1884, they displayed an ‘Old London’ room with the furniture principally of oak and of special note a mantlepiece with tapestry panel, a ‘Jacobean’ press with painted panels, an excellent reproduction of Archibishop Sharpe’s cabinet and various other period pieces [The Furniture Gazette, 23 August 1884]. Recorded in The Furniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery and Allied Trades (1886) as cabinet carvers, gilders etc. at the same address and The Furniture Gazette, 1 September 1888, recorded the firm as exhibitors of furniture at the Glasgow International Exhibition 1888.
Source: Robertson, ‘Catherine Cranston’, The Decorative Arts Society 1850 to the Present (1986).
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