Who was George Edmund Street? (1824-1881)

George Edmund Street trained under the architect Owen Carter, then worked in the office of George Gilbert Scott Street began is architectural practice in Oxford in 1850 having been appointed the architect to the diocese of Oxford where he remained until 1855 when he moved back to London. From 1868 until his death he worked on what was to become his most important commission, the new law Courts in London. 

Street is the most influential gothic revival architect to the arts and crafts movement; both Philip Webb and William Morris trained and worked for him, and they in-turn founded the arts and crafts movement and trained and/or influenced generations of architects after them. In 1867 Bruce Talbert Dedicated his most influential book of design 'Gothic Forms' to Street.

Primarily a church architect, furniture by Street is rare and comes almost exclusively from his largest commission; the Law Courts in London. To furnish his commissions he designed furniture, tiles, metalwork and for Jones & Willis he designed textiles which were exhibited at the 1851 and 1862 London Exhibition's. 

Ref. Charlotte Gere and Michael Whiteway, Nineteenth-Century Design, From Pugin to Mackintosh, Appendix of Architects, Designers and Manufacturers, pages 280-298, George Weidenfeld and Nicholson Ltd, 1993.

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