Kaufman, L.; Kaufman & Co. (1886-1899)
Kaufman, L.; Kaufman & Co.
Manchester, Lancashire; cabinet & bed makers (fl.1886-99)
L. Kaufman was at 47 Goulden Street & 50 Marshall Street as a manufacturer of inexpensive bedroom furniture with suites made in ash, walnut and other woods, and also makers of tables, chests of drawers, hatstands and Lancashire style kitchen dressers [The Furniture Gazette, 1 July 1885]. He was listed at the same addresses as wholesale cabinet makers in The Furniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery, and Allied Trades (1886).
Kaufman advertised in The Furniture Gazette, 1 January 1888, onwards. It described him as a practical cabinet maker with an business established for eleven years that had introduced labour saving machinery and steam power to facilitate production. His furniture was said to be of ‘…sound craftsmanship and moderateness in price' [The Furniture Gazette, 1 April 1888].
In 1899 Kaufman & Co were in Weaste, near Manchester, where they produced ‘solid hardwood bedroom suite and bedstead manufacturers’. An article and illustration of the exterior of their factory and a patented bed design (no. 324844) in ‘New Art’ style was published in The Cabinet Maker (Supplement), 15 March 1899 [illus. Agius, p. 169].
Sources: Agius, British Furniture 1880-1915 (1978); Edwards, Victorian Furniture. Technology & Design (1993).
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