J. Newbigging Smith and Co.

J. NEWBIGGING SMITH & Co., Cabinet Makers, Upholsterers, and Carpet Warehousemen, 26 & 28 Jamaica Street, Glasgow

    The prosperity of the cabinet-making industries in Glasgow has been largely derived from the successful operations of those old and influential houses of which that now selected for brief notice affords a distinguished example ; and the business now known under the firm-title of Messrs. J. Newbigging Smith and Co. possesses all the interesting and characteristic features of a concern exemplifying the higher phase of the cabinet-making art and trade. From its commencement half a century ago until the present time the establishment has formed an accredited medium for the supply of substantial and artistic furnishings at terms suitable to every development in modern trade competition, and the firm have taken a worthy initiative in all movements tending to bring high-class goods within reach of all classes, while the high standard of excellence in production adopted by the founders of the business has been rigidly and consistently adhered to.

    The operations of the business are conducted in the magnificent premises in Jamaica Street, and the trade of the house manifests constant growth and development creditable to the able and untiring management of Mr. J. Newbigging Smith, the only partner and proprietor. The excellence of the firm’s goods is known to, and appreciated by, first-class connections all over the United Kingdom, and the extent and capacities of the establishment at the above address may be said to form a splendid evidence of the facilities which the firm command and the magnitude of the resources they maintain. The entire space of five flats is fully occupied, and as regards frontage, elevation, and lighting, the house is especially favoured. Each floor forms a spacious ware-room or show-room, wherein all the diversified styles and designs in modern furnishing are admirably illustrated. A correct knowledge of artistic effect is manifested in the manner in which the various furnishings for the dining-room, drawing-room, parlour, hall, lobby, and office are submitted en suite ; and the extensive space which the capacities of the house make available enables the firm to exhibit to the best possible advantage what is unquestionably one of the largest collections of high-class furniture in the trade.

    The liberal and satisfactory terms on which the firm carry out the entire undertakings of the cabinet-making trade are well assured in the simple fact that they supervise the manufacture — under systems of the greatest economy — of nearly everything they supply ; and while they are known to produce — in furniture — styles that are original and unconventional, they display special skill in the production of bedding, and their upholstery work is not rivalled by that of any house in the West of Scotland. Messrs. J. Newbigging Smith and Co. transact a very large and important trade in carpets, and import an enormous range of fabrics, rich and meritorious alike in texture and design.

    The firm deal exclusively in superior goods, and have taken at all times a leading part in directing public taste towards a high standard of furnishing art. The steadfast recognition of this principle has valuably contributed to enhance, as well as sustain, their commercial reputation, and in the continuous enterprise of the esteemed principal of the firm there consists the best recommendation of the merits of a house so eminently founded on honourable trading successes, and the unvarying support of its many constituents.

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