The Peacock three seater garden bench is based on Andrew Crace' s Peacock design which is his version of a favourite
pattern originally produced by J P White of Bedford at the beginning of the 20th century. The original sample of this
seat is also shown in Gertrude Jekyll's book on Garden Ornament and Country Houses.
The original Peacock garden seat was produced as a copy, of what J P White states in his introduction to his catalogue
as, a hundred year old seat from an Vicarage in Norfolk. This seat originated and formed the nucleus of the extensive
manufacture of Garden Seats at the Pyghtle Works. He describes the Peacock seat as a favourite pattern being quiet and
unassuming appearance harmonizing with any surroundings. If his estimate of the seat being a hundred years old when he
fiund it at the begining of his business life, the seat would have its origins somewhere between 1790 and 1810.
I developed my very first Peacock seat for client in Wiltshire with his interpretation of the original drawing of the
design in the book and the templates that were taken from the few remaining pieces of wood from the original collapsed
seat. Interestingly These were found to be exactly the same as parts of the Biddenham seat copied for Tyntesfield
National Trust. Both original Peacock and Biddenham garden furniture were certainly made in the same workshop of J P
White of Bedford.
The Peacock seat is the timeless garden furniture that has a quiet and unassuming appearance allowing it to harmonise
with any surroundings. My Peacock Three seater also replaced a very similar seat which was said to be well over 100
years old at Cannon Ashby National Trust.
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