Peddle, James (1876-1886)
Peddle, James
London and High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; wholesale art furniture designer & manufacturer, chair & couch manufacturer (fl.1876-86)
Listed in London as a wholesale art furniture designer & manufacturer, chair & couch manufacturer and maker of frames for frames & couches at 4 Union Street, Kennington Road in The Furniture Gazette Directory, 1876 & 1877. In December 1877 Peddle moved to newly built premises at 35 Cranmer Road, Brixton Road [The Furniture Gazette, 15 December 1877].
Peddle participated in the Furniture Trades Exhibition, Agricultural Hall, 1884, displaying designs and samples of fireplaces, cabinets & tables. Of particular note was the ‘carved cast fireplace in Renaissance style’ and a dining room chimneypiece and over mantel designed by O. Davis, illus. [The Furniture Gazette, 10, 17 & 24 May 1884]. He advertised his manufactures in The Furniture Gazette, 5 July 1884 and vacancies for several chair makers for his workshops in The Furniture Gazette, 1 November 1884.
In late 1885 Peddle moved to Alpha Place, King’s Cross, London with the telegraphic address of ‘Pedallian, London’ [The Furniture Gazette, 1 December 1885]. He was listed at this address in The Furniture Gazette: Classified List of the Furniture, Upholstery and Allied Trades (1886) as Art Furniture Manufacturer and Merchant, and Cabinet, Chair and Couch Maker and Manufacturers.
Dr Susan Weber recorded J. Peddle as a cabinet/chair manufacturer in High Wycombe, employing some designs by E. W. Godwin. This was probably the same man.
Source: S. Soros, The Secular Furniture of E W Godwin (1999).
Ornamentation/Design