H. Blairman & Sons Ltd. offers well-documented furniture and works of art dating principally from the late eighteenth century, the nineteenth century and from the early decades of the twentieth century.
Blairman's interest in eighteenth-century design is exemplified by its identification in 2007 of the four missing candlestands supplied in 1745-46 for the Long Gallery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds. From the Regency period Blairman's has a particular interest in designers and their patrons. In the recent past the firm has handled, for example, several pieces of furniture after designs published by Thomas Hope, from his London house. Blairman's has also identified and placed furniture made for the collector William Beckford, both for Lansdown Crescent and for Lansdown Tower.
In 1987 Blairman's mounted, with the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, an exhibition 'George Bullock: Cabinet-Maker'. Since the exhibition, the firm has maintained its interest in this remarkable designer and cabinet maker.
From the nineteenth century Blairman's has concentrated on two principal areas: work from the pantheon of British architect-designers who advanced new ideas throughout the century, and the work of the leading contemporary continental European manufacturers. Blairman's offers works commissioned from designers such as Pugin (A.W.N and E.W.), Burges, Godwin, Gimson, Voysey and Baillie Scott. The firm also regularly has furniture and works of art manufactured from designs by Philip Webb, Talbert, Dresser, Benson and many others. Continental designers and manufacturers whose work Blairman's consistently carries in stock include Sévin and Reiber, and Barbedienne, Christofle and Diehl, as well as Florentine carvers such as Frullini. |
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