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Wardrobe   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Robert Cranwell; J Tonson Garlick; Garlick & Cranwell
Title
Wardrobe
Object type Classification: NM3.1221
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English: Wardrobe with Maori style carvings ‘exhibition’ wardrobe circa 1888-9 designed and made by Garlick and Cranwell Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand for display at the time of the Melbourne International Exhibition, Melbourne. Panels above left and right wardrobes- Central wheku head (stylized) with rauponga surface decoration. Surrounded by circular bands of rauponga. To left and right is spiral. Piece at top features combination of spirals, whakarare and rauponga patterns This large wardrobe was made for exhibition at the Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia held in Melbourne, Australia in 1888-89. Garlick and Cranwell constructed this piece to highlight their technical skills and palette of New Zealand native woods, and decorative patterns. The adoption of indigenous carving motifs, as well as carved native flora and fauna to articulate the surface, compelled the viewers at the international exhibition, and continues to fascinate.
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; Victorian-Contemporary Age-European and British-art and design period; Circa 1888
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height: 2372mm
width: 1825mm
depth: 634mm

notes: height 2372 x width 1825 x depth 634 mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
4647 (object number)
Place of creation Auckland
Credit line collection of Auckland Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira, F152
Notes It was hard getting good furniture in Aotearoa in the mid-19th century. As new arrival Charlotte Godley wrote in 1851, "There are shops for everything excepting furniture which we are rather in want of - Everything like furniture is so dear and bad; tables and chairs are not to be had. We are very sorry we did not bring out more." As tradespeople arrived, a better quality of household furniture became available. Those with building skills, in high demand during early settlement, adapted their knowledge and turned their hand to furniture making. By the 1870s, skilled artisans, lured to New Zealand by claims of better pay and conditions, established themselves as cabinet-makers and were quick to utilise the great variety of useful and attractive native timbers. This wardrobe was designed and made by Auckland-based furniture makers Jonathan Tonson Garlick and Robert Cranwell in 1889. While they made many domestic objects for home-owners looking for something nice to put in their bedrooms and living rooms, this wardrobe was an ‘exhibition’ piece, designed to show off their technical skills, their design abilities, and the qualities and colours of New Zealand timber. It was made for, and shown at, the Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, held in Melbourne in 1888 and 1889. This was one of a number of big international exhibitions that took place around the world in the nineteenth century, boosting trade and promoting the resources of different colonies. Like many domestic objects made in Aotearoa in the nineteenth century, this wardrobe is an odd mix of Māori and European images and styles. Garlick and Cranwell have used leaves and foliage like you might find on a British-made wardrobe, but they have also used a variety of Māori patterns, some which are recognisable from Māori art, and some which are interpretations and innovations. While this wardrobe isn’t an example of Māori art – in that it isn’t made by Māori artists, and it doesn’t use these patterns in the ways that a trained Māori artist would – it is artistic, a use of Māori art that is visually sophisticated and alert to the potential of Māori design, even if there isn’t much awareness of what might be culturally appropriate.
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