Brussels armchair

Architect and interior designer George Walton studied at the Glasgow School of Art before establishing a design firm in Glasgow in 1888. He decorated numerous homes and businesses in the Glagow area, including the Argyle Street tea-room and the Buchanan Street tea-rooms with Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Walton moved to London in 1897and from 1898 to 1902 he designed furnishings and shop-fronts for branches of the Kodak Camera Company in Brussels, Glasgow, Milan, Moscow, Leningrad, Vienna, and London, including this armchair for the Brussels shop.