44. Dining table from an important Glasgow Style dining suite, comprising:

A good quartered oak Arts & Crafts extending dining table with square tapering legs to bulb feet made by Wylie & Lochhead. (75cm high, 122cm wide and 155cm long, without leaves, 198cm with 1 leaf and 241 fully extended. 

An oak Glasgow Style sideboard with two drawers above three doors, centrally peaked cornice, 4 relief carved panels of stylised rose leaf to the side doors, split heart decoration to the shaped front and side plinths on square pad feet and brass and copper handles to the drawers and doors designed by E A Taylor for Wylie & Lochhead. (120cm high, 183cm wide and 61cm deep).

A set of 8 oak high back Glasgow Style dining chairs with relief carved stylised Glasgow rose to the peaked top back rail, three splats and shaped bottom rail with upholstered seats designed by E A Taylor for Wylie & Lochhead. 2 carvers, 6 sides.
(Carver 110cm high sides 107cm high)

An oak Glasgow Style three tier buffet with shaped top back rail, tapering legs with split heart decoration to the shaped front plinth designed by E A Taylor and made by Wylie & Lochhead. (107cm high 122 wide 46 deep)

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Summer Exhibition 2009

The Arts & Crafts Exhibits

E A Taylor 1874 - 1951

"most talented of the generation that had followed ... Mackintosh and Walton".

Ernest Archibald Taylor began his career as a draughtsman at Scott & Co Ltd, the Clyde Shipyard. He moved to Wylie & Lochhead in 1893/94 as a trainee, attended part time courses and soon began to teach.

From 1899 he and George Logan ran the furniture design course at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (GWSTC). Taylor was also an instructor in furniture design at the Glasgow School of Art from 1903 - 05. In 1906 he took up the post of director of the industrial art section at  the GWSTC.

In this short but innovative period Taylor's teaching was, like that of Charles Spooner at Lethaby's Central School in London, often overlooked but quite remarkable for its far reaching influence.

When Wylie & Lochhead moved to associate themselves with the emerging Glasgow Style, Taylor along with John Ednie, George Logan and David Gow, was crucial to their success. At the 1901 Glasgow Exhibition 'they created a house style which caught the public imagination.

Taylor's experiments with colour were considered the most astounding. For him 'the harmony and relation of colours were central to "many of the relations of life", and his interiors were designed to make people think. The influential German critic Herman Muthesius thought Taylor's work was the "most talented of the generation that had followed ... Mackintosh and Walton".

Jeff Jackson - The Glasgow Style 1999