White Allom & Co were established in 1905, by Charles Carrick Allom (1865-1947), and were decorators, furniture manufacturers and antique dealers for many major collectors and clients in the UK and USA. Charles Allom was knighted in 1913 following his work on Buckingham Palace. The firm was bought by Holloway Brothers in 1960 and closed in 2011.
Among the many commissions that the firm furnished and decorated were:
The Frick Mansion, New York (1912-1914); Whitemarsh Hall, Wyndmoor, PA for E.T. Stotesbury (1919); The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA; The Waldorf Astoria, New York; Buckingham Palace, London; St. Donat's, Wales, for William Randolph Hurst; Elvaston Castle, for the Earl of Harrington (1930).