George Peddle (1855–1933) was born in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire — the historic English centre of Windsor chair-making — and migrated to Hobart in 1884, working briefly at Risby's Furniture Factory before setting up his own workshop in Launceston. He later settled at Nabowla in Tasmania's North East, where his brother-in-law Harry Hearn (1856–1932) joined him in 1895 to continue the craft alongside Peddle's sawmilling business, working exclusively in Tasmanian blackwood. Around 1900, Peddle won a contract to supply the Tasmanian Government Railways, and "Peddle chairs" became a familiar sight in railway waiting rooms, schools, public buildings and Tasmanian homes and farmhouses across the state — earning a commemorative medal at the 1925 British Empire Exhibition in London.
Author and furniture restorer Denis Lake spent years researching the two men and even built his own reproduction chairs to understand their techniques firsthand.
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- Format: Hardcover
- Signed and number 209 of 500 limited edition
- Published: 2016. Now out of print.
- Pages: 272
- Illustrations: B&W Indexed
CONDITION
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