John Laird & Son
JOHN LAIRD & SON, Upholsterers, Cabinet Makers, Bedding Manufacturers, and Carpet Warehousemen, 207, Dumbarton Road, Glasgow.
The old-established and influential house of Messrs. John Laird & Son presents many features of exceptional interest and commands a position among Glasgows notable commercial concerns consistent with the honourable repute it has earned as an accredited centre of the cabinet making and furnishing trades. The business was established forty-five years ago close to its present location by Mr. John Laird, and under the joint control of his two sons, Messrs. John and David M. Laird, its operations and principles are alike ably sustained.
The present establishment has been occupied by the firm for upwards of thirteen years, and comprises two large double shops joined at the rear, the interior extending over a lengthy stretch of floorage space to the warehouse and office at the rear and the whole premises presenting a lofty and well-proportioned appearance that tends to enhance the display of high-class furnishing goods with which the house is repletely and exhaustively stocked.
The extensive frontage of fifty feet to the Dumbarton Road thoroughfare admits of an attractive exhibit of all the various departments comprised, while the several items of drawing room, dining room, and parlour appointment are internally submitted to inspection en suite, and in a manner which illustrates their adaptability to every condition of modern furnishing. Besides every kind of general furniture and cabinet work, the firm transact extensively in beds and bedding suitable for every class and every means, and being practical manufacturers, are enabled to afford to patrons such economical advantages as are ensured by the facilities at their command.
As carpet warehousemen, they have developed a very important department in the supply of carpets, wax cloths, linoleums, rugs, &c., all representing fabrics of the first quality ; and it need only be added that there is no branch or section of a first-class furnishing industry and trade upon which Messrs. Laird have not comprehensively entered. The production of hair, straw, wool, and other mattresses forms a leading feature of the industry engaged ; also the repairing and taping of Venetian blinds. They carry out this work with the completeness and taste of a firm who have made an exhaustive study of every artistic essential of the trade.
Supported by connections of long standing, Messrs. John Laird & Son occupy a place in Glasgows commerce beyond the possibilities of competition, and both partners are accorded that popular esteem and appreciativeness to which their honourable regard for the interests of clients and their unfailing liberality and courtesy have entitled them.
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