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George Walton Sofa

2 Seater sofa designed by George Walton for Beechcroft circa 1900. This sofa can be 3 seater if required. This example is covered in 'Granada' fabric

Exclusive to Liberty & Co.
Height: 1.040
Width: 1.510
Depth: 0.730
+13 metres fabric

GEORGE WALTON SOFA c.1898
A distinguished simplified sofa designed by George Walton for George Davidson for Beechcroft in 1902. The settee has the light and upright quality of a Sheraton settee, keeps the high arms of an earlier style and adds it’s own Waltonian flavour: an exaggerated verticality with a gentle outward curve to balance the tapering legs.
By the end of the 19th century, what had sometimes met with derision in Glasgow at the outset had gathered itself a small but growing market. It was the combined style of George Walton and Charles Rennie Mackintosh at the very visible tea rooms and the new work coming out of the School of art that caught the imagination of the Glasgow public.
While Mackintosh’s work had successfully complemented Walton’s at the Tea Rooms, this had disguised substantial differences in direction. Comparison of Walton’s high backed chair in the Buchanan Street luncheon room with Mackintosh’s high backed chair for Argyll Street, of Walton’s elegance of line and delicacy of form with Mackintosh’s sculptural strength makes some of the difference clear. Walton’s imaginative forms grew in harmony with his respect for the formal and technical traditions of his craft.

George Walton Sofas showing alternative fabrics

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