Mikado Bamboo Co.

Gooch Street, Birmingham, Warks.; bamboo furniture makers (fl.1893)

In the April 1893 issue of Furniture & Decoration the firm advertised a very large stock of ‘occasional chairs enamelled in various colours, chaste and elegant in design’. The following month in the same magazine they advertised ‘everything conceivable, from a wall bracket to a bedstead’. Among the more unusual objects were a photo screen and a saddle-shaped reading chair. A cabinet, chair and drawing room screen were advertised in the May issue of the same publication (illus. Walkling (1979), pp. 80 & 81).

Sources: Agius, British Furniture 1880-1915 (1978); Walkling, Antique Bamboo Furniture (1979).