A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF GARDEN FURNTIURE AND GARDEN ORNAMENT

(TRADE CATALOGUE)  WHITE, John Pyghtle.  A COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF GARDEN FURNTIURE AND GARDEN ORNAMENT.                                           

London: The Pyghtle Works, 1906. 4to. Publishers green wrappers. 112 pages.

Although uncredited it would appear that a great number of the designs illustrated in this catlaogue are the work of Thomas Mawson (1861-1933) and Charles Edward Mallows (1864-1915).  "Mawson and Mallows were strongly influenced by the seventeenth century, and its belief in the combination of house and garden design.  It is likely that Mallows encouraged Mawson to exhibit the firm's designs at the Royal Academy, where fifty were shown from May to August, between 1900 and 1932.  Mallows was asked by John Pyghtle White, the Bedford maker of garden furniture, to design Whites house and garden, and he illustrated White's catalogue."

It is clear that Mawson, Mellows and Hugh Baillie Scott worked either together or melded their ideas to give the Pyghtle Works designs some uniformity.  For whatever reason, and apart from a few special commissions, most of the items are either uncredited, although one of the designs is signed Mellows, others are simply initialed by the designers W.A. Forsyth and C.B.H. Quennell.  By 1906 Mawson, Mellows, and Scott had moved on to better things although their designs still remained in production at the Pyghtle Works.

The catalogue is divided into sixteen sections which cover Garden Seats; Garden Chairs; Garden Tables, Sundials; Treillage; Trellis Work Screens, Arches, etc.; Pigeon Cotes; Summer Houses, Chalets, Arbours, etc.; Garden Ornaments, Vases, Figures, etc.; Lead Work, Figures, Vases, etc.; Palm Boxes, Plant Tubs, etc.; Pergolas; Bridges; Fruit Storing and Greenhousee, etc.; Wood Entrance and Wicket Gates.  The only copy recorded is in the British Library.  Extremities of spine restored, else a good copy.

 

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