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Britnell, J. (1890)

Britnell, J.

Buckinghamshire; chair maker (fl.1890)

Maker of a Windsor-type armchair in beech, elm and yew exhibited by Ernest Gimson at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, London, in 1890 (cat. no. 337) and now at the Leicester Secular Society. This piece was made to a design of Ernest Gimson, who had seen a similar example at Ditcheat Manor House Inn, Somerset, which he had sketched in 1886.

Sources: Arts & Crafts Exhibition Catalogues, 1888-1916; Carruthers, Greensted, Roscoe, Ernest Gimson. Arts & Crafts Designer and Architect (2019).