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Lot Essay
Jean Avisse, maître in 1745.
This elegant suite of seat furniture was personally chosen for Mrs Remington-Hobbs for her residence in Egerton Terrace, by the celebrated French decorator Stéphane Voudin of the firm of Jansen.
The well known firm of Morant, Boyd & Morant was established in 1790 by George Morant (d. 1846) at 88 New Bond Street, London. It continued to flourish and expand throughout the 19th Century, becoming interior decorators and upholsterers to Queen Victoria. By 1852 the firm was known as Morant & Boyd and had premises at 91 New Bond Street, and by 1858 they had moved to 81 New Bond Street.
George John Morant had been employed at Stafford House from 1836, while trading in partnership with his father as George Morant and Son. He completed the ameublement begun in the late 1820s by the court upholsterer Nicolas Morel, and also that instigated from 1834 by the upholsterer Desiré Dellier. The Duchess of Sutherland also played an important role in the furnishing of Stafford House as is demonstrated by her design of a table, which Morant exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (The Art Journal, Illustrated Catalogue, London, 1851, p. 34). Some of the Morant chairs are illustrated in situ in Bedford Lemere's photographs of Stafford House taken in 1895 (Yorke, op. cit., fig. 2).
This elegant suite of seat furniture was personally chosen for Mrs Remington-Hobbs for her residence in Egerton Terrace, by the celebrated French decorator Stéphane Voudin of the firm of Jansen.
The well known firm of Morant, Boyd & Morant was established in 1790 by George Morant (d. 1846) at 88 New Bond Street, London. It continued to flourish and expand throughout the 19th Century, becoming interior decorators and upholsterers to Queen Victoria. By 1852 the firm was known as Morant & Boyd and had premises at 91 New Bond Street, and by 1858 they had moved to 81 New Bond Street.
George John Morant had been employed at Stafford House from 1836, while trading in partnership with his father as George Morant and Son. He completed the ameublement begun in the late 1820s by the court upholsterer Nicolas Morel, and also that instigated from 1834 by the upholsterer Desiré Dellier. The Duchess of Sutherland also played an important role in the furnishing of Stafford House as is demonstrated by her design of a table, which Morant exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851 (The Art Journal, Illustrated Catalogue, London, 1851, p. 34). Some of the Morant chairs are illustrated in situ in Bedford Lemere's photographs of Stafford House taken in 1895 (Yorke, op. cit., fig. 2).