Philip Clissett

[4][5] Clissett's chairs were popular with the Arts and Crafts cognoscenti, and were used by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in early commissions, and by the architectural team of Richard Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin.

They were also used as part of the original furnishing of the Passmore Edwards Settlement at Mary Ward House, 5 Tavistock Place, London by the architects A. Dunbar Smith and C. Cecil Brewer.

[1] The following is a list of more or less well-known people who are known to have had Clissett's ladderback chairs amongst the furnishings in their home:[1] Dugald S. MacColl, Sidney Barnsley, Ernest Barnsley, Geoffrey Lupton, Norman Jewson, George Frampton, Emery Walker, Edward Burne-Jones, Philip Burne-Jones, Raymond Unwin, Wilson Bidwell (architect of Letchworth Town Hall, Cecil Hignett (probable; architect of the Spirella Building, Letchworth), Charles Canning Winmill (probable).

By the late 1890s, Clissett was well-known enough for his portrait, by Maxwell Balfour, to appear in a prestigious arts journal, The Quarto.

[6] Clissett made chairs in the West Midlands tradition,[2] turning the parts from fresh, unseasoned ash (Fraxinus excelsior) with a pole lathe.