Scottish Furniture and Interiors 1800-1945
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 500 pieces of Scottish furniture, furnishings, interiors and architecture which date from between 1800 and 1945. This collection includes furniture, interior panelling, plaster, ironwork, leaded glass and light fittings. These pieces were mainly produced by west of Scotland designers and cabinetmakers, or made for properties in the west of Scotland, and reflect the evolving tastes of the time, including reproduction and revival styles. The largest group of material comes from two workers' lodges and a cottage owned by the Strathclyde Regional Water Board at Loch Katrine. The gift of 437 items was offered between 1975 and 1976 and includes 98 pieces of 19th and early 20th century domestic furniture – including bedroom and dining furniture – as well as fittings, glass, ceramics, tableware and metalwork utilized on the premises. Other significant groups of material in the collection come from four interiors offered directly to the museum as gifts in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These include 32 pieces from the 1897 Boardroom of The Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society's Headquarters, 22 samples of decoration and fittings from the interiors of Glencoats Hospital in Argyll, and the ingleneuk, fireplace and panelling from Queen Victoria's Royal Reception Room at the International Exhibition of 1888. Later pieces in the collection include 20 items of Art Deco furniture and fittings from Glasgow interiors designed for mid-range pockets between the 1920s and 1940s.
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