Landall & Gordon (1724–1756)
Landall & Gordon
London; cabinet and chair makers (fl. 1724–c.1756)
Thomas Landall was first recorded as a cabinet maker working at the ‘Desk and Bookcase’ in Fetter Lane in 1737. In 1749 he apprenticed William Lenden, at a consideration of £20, paid from a fund to apprentice the sons of poor clergymen.
In the 1750s he was in partnership, trading as Landall & Gordon.
Trade card of Landall & Gordon, Joyners, Cabinet & Chair - Makers at ye Griffin & Cahir in Little Argyle Street by Swallow Street, 1806 [D,2.1273]. © The Trustees of the British Museum
They made ‘all sorts of Tables, Chairs, Setee-Beds, Looking-Glasses, Picture-frames, Window-Blinds & all sorts of Cabinet work’. Rate books show that between 1766 and 1773, Landall and Gordon occupied adjacent premises in Little St Martin’s Lane, but in 1774 only Landall remained in residence.
Several brass inlaid tea chests resembling that depicted on the trade card are known and illustrated in Gilbert & Murdoch (1993), pp. 122-3.
Source: DEFM; Gilbert & Murdoch, John Channon and brass-inlaid furniture 1730-1760, (1993). Gilbert & Murdoch, ‘Channon Revisited’, Furniture History (1994); Graf, ‘Moravians in London: A Case Study in Furniture Making, c. 1735-65’, Furniture History (2004).
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.