€1,500 - €2,500
AN EXCELLENT QUALITY MAHOGANY INLAID ROBERT STRAHAN DUBLIN WARDROBE, two door bow-fronted wardrobe, to the top a dentil cornice above inlaid details over two doors with oval inlaid panels. The doors with nice brass escutcheons, above two drawers with brass swing handles, raised on downturned bracket feet. Complete with original label reading ‘R. STRAHAN & Co., Ltd. Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers 135 St. Stephens Green, Dublin.’ Dimensions: 44.5in wide x 82in high x 18.5in deep approx. More about the Maker: The furniture firm of Robert Strahan and Co was founded in 1776. Operating from premises in 10-11 Chancery Lane, by 1815 it was so successful that two new workshops opened at 24-25 Henry Street and 5 Leinster Street in 1845. They displayed their work at Dublin's great industrial exhibition of 1853, where the best examples of Irish design and manufacture were on show. In 1870 the firm moved to Abbey Street and continued to trade under the well established family name up until 1969. Patronized by the Office of Public Works, the firm often but not exclusively designed and manufactured high quality but often unadorned furniture. Strahan designed furniture for some of the great Irish country houses such as Doneraile Court, Co. Cork and Lisnavagh, Co. Carlow.
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