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Learn more. Contact your local office for all commercial or promotional uses. Editorial :. Date created:. License type:. Release info:. Not released. More information. Object name:. Standard code Legacy code. Show captions. Add items to create slideshow. Established in This is a large fine antique gentleman's wardrobe compactum. An English, walnut bedroom cabinet by Gillow and Co Located in Hele, Devon, GB. This is an antique gentleman's triple wardrobe. An English, mahogany and satinwood inlaid cabinet, dating to the This is an antique wardrobe in English walnut, a compactum bearing the cabinet makers name plate to the rear rea James Gloucester, circa This is an antique wardrobe.

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Excellent quali View Full Details. Gillow's of Lancaster, an Aesthetic Movement walnut armoire wardrobe compactum with lots of useful storage space. The companies continued to use their own labels and stamps on their furniture even after they had merged. The success of their presentation cemented professional relationships with makers and clients around the world in addition to new workshops in Paris. Together they attempted to bring a progressive art deco edge to the company and in they opened the large exhibition Modern Art in Decoration and Furnishing in London.

It consisted of 68 decorated and furnished rooms situated on the 4th and 5th floors of the Oxford Street building. The exhibition ran from November to January With the Great Depression in the s combined with Lord Waring spending outside his means during the previous decade caused financial problems for the company so Lord Waring was forced to resign as their chairman in September During WWI the Lancaster factory was turned over to war production which made ammunition chests and propellers for aircraft.

From a manufacturing base in Cambridge Row workers made tents, gas masks for horses and aircraft wings. The company also manufactured ammunition belts for use with machine guns, nosebags for horses and protective clothing for use during gas attacks.

During WWII the factory in Cambridge Grove produced parts for gliders and the Mosquito aircraft, while tents and kit bags as well as camouflage nets were made by the upholstery department. After the war the business of the firm began to decline and the Lancaster workshops closed in to provide, two years later, the first home of the newly founded University of Lancaster.