CFA Voysey, Arthur Simpson & 'The Handicrafts' & Cotswold School Furniture
Cotswold 9
Arthur Simpson, The Handicrafts & the walker ! An exceptional Arts & Crafts oak firescreen with a copper panel & a hand chased inscription that for me says everything about what type of craftsman he was, how he loved his pure way of life & how the motto encompasses the whole Ethos of the Arts & Crafts Movement.
'THE LYF SO SHORT THE CRAFT SO LONG TO LERNE'.
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Cotswold 10
A rare & important Arts & Crafts oak dining table by Earnest Gimson with Hayrake detailed stretcher. Circa 1900
Length 6'6", Width 41 1/2", height is just under 29".
£POA.
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Cotswold 11
Arthur Simpson. A stunning Arts & Crafts oak settle part of a large collection of Simpson furniture numbering over 35 pieces which will be exhibited in the late summer of 2011.
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Cotswold 12
An exceptional quality Arts & Crafts corner cupboard attributed to Arthur Simpson of Kendal with stylised floral carving to the top rail, a single door below & the whole stood on turned legs.
Height.
£1950.
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Cotswold 13
A pair of Arts & Crafts oak chairs by Arthur Simpson of Kendal with line & dot inlaid decoration.
Circa 1900
£POA.
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Cotswold 14
An Arts & Crafts oak bedside cabinet in the manner of Edward Barnsley with exposed dovetailed joints to the top & through tennon details to the sides.
Circa 1900
£POA.
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Cotswold 15
A good quality Cotswold School dropleaf dining table with latice work ends & exposed tennons to the top & twin sculptured floor stretchers.
Height 24", Width closed 10", Width open 23 1/2". Circa 1900.
£POA.
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Cotswold 16
An imaginatively designed Superior Quality 1/4 sawn Oak Arts & Crafts sideboard made by Arthur W Simpson of Kendal one of the most important Master Craftsman from the Arts & Crafts Movement, a leading carver & designer of domestic & ecclesiastical furniture at the end of the nineteenth & beginning of the 20th century.. He was born in Highgate Kendal on December 7th 1857 in the heart of England's Lake District, during his childhood he was constantly in trouble with his father for poaching a pocket knife & cutting sticks from a Willow tree in his garden. As a child he loathed school & no sooner than his mother had dropped him at school, that he'd made his escape. He was always carving objects for friends & for favours after school hours & even took projects to bed with him thus waking up with his bed sheets filled with wood carvings. At the age of 14 Simpson was adamant he wanted to become a carver & was apprenticed to Robert Rigg a new cabinet making company who had recently opened but the work he was given was not much in the line of wood carving & when he had to make a coffin & was persuaded to help put the body into it he vowed to leave at the next opportunity. He then heard that Gillows of Lancaster were looking for an apprentice carver where he went for an interview & gained the job & started work on Monday the 4th of October 1875 where he stayed learning his trade for just under 4 years & while at Gillows he made friends with William Murry a deaf mute who worked at the same bench as Simpson whom he learned to communicate with on his fingers & learnt a great deal about cabinet making from this excellent draughtsman & shared many long walks together in their spare time. In September 1879 he left Gillows to pursue more skills & went to Leicester gaining employment with Samuel Barfield a "Master Carver" himself whom employed around 30 carvers where he stayed for 15 months & resided with his Uncle Thomas & his Auntie Lizzie Seddon.
He worked in many parts of the country before settling momentarily in Kendal, where he opened for business in 1881 at 22a Highgate. Kendal. A short lived experiment where he came into debt to the sum of £30 over a 12 month period & decided that Kendal wasn't the best place for a carver to be & on advice went to London to find work where he was employed by Osmonds. At Osmonds he felt the work they gave him would not teach him much & continued looking for work traipsing from workshop to workshop until he gained employment with William Aumonier's in Tottenham Court Road & here he met a very skilful carver called Mackie & learnt a great deal from him in the short period of 5 month's that he worked for Aumoniers. (He was let go due to work waning at Aumoniers).
Simpson was known to love walking almost as much as he loved to work with wood & it was at this point in his life after he had been made redundant at Aumoniers that he decided to walk 252 miles home to Kendall to be the best man for his cousins wedding held on the 31st of August 1882. After the wedding he set off in search of more work where he gained employment in Altringham with H. Faulkner Armitage although little is known of his work there it seems he stayed in Altringham until sometime in 1885 when he returned to Kendal. From 1885 he taught in local villages & from 1886 he taught classes at the Keswick School of Industrial Art while doing carving for church interiors. Also in 1886 Simpson employed his first employee 'Tom Dixon' on April 9th & therefore it must be at this point that the beginnings of what would later become "The Handicrafts" evolved although the name "The Handicrafts" wouldn't be introduced until the end of Queen Victoria's reign. In the summer of 1887 he became engaged to Jane Davidson while on holiday in the Isle of Man & they were married in March 1888. In this year he was also employing a number of craftsmen all involved with church & domestic interiors, carving & making furniture. The workshops were originally at Berry's Yard in Kendal but later moved to Queen Katherine Buildings in the Christmas of 1896 & "The Handicrafts" was not coined until 1901 when a new showroom was opened in Windermere & it was this showroom which was originally named as "The Handicrafts", the company name which would continue until the company's end in 1951 was not transferred to the workshops at Queen Katherine Buildings until 1906. Arthur Simpson made furniture to designs by C.F.A.Voysey & interior work in houses which Voysey designed, Voysey was one of the most famous & influential Architect/Designers of the Arts & Crafts Movement known for his superior architectural achievements & the incrediable simplicity of his designs. He designed from the buildings conception to everything within the building including the interiors, the furniture, metal wears, carpets, curtains, wallpapers, lighting, fireplaces right down to the salt & pepper pot on the dining table, all within the umbrella of the Arts & Crafts Movement & always impeccably dressed wearing a flamboyant Liberty cravat. Voysey designed a house for Simpson & his family called Littleholme & Simpson & Voysey became over a long period great friends yet many people were quite weary of Voysey as he was a very stern & fastidious man & many including the Simpson family stood in awe of him but Simpson whom had a very strong will, "stood in Awe of no man". Arthur Simpson's most famous interior was for Blackwell designed by another famous Architect/Designer of the period M.H.Ballie Scott, Blackwell is a beautiful property over looking Lake Windermere & Simpson did most of the internal woodwork from skirting to staircases carved panelling, doors, exposed beamwork & some furniture. The house is a monument to Ballie Scott's designs & Simpson's work. Blackwell is now open to the public & holds regular exhibitions throughout the year, it is a superb example still with its original period interior & probably the most important & complete example from the Arts & Crafts Movement in England today. Arthur Simpson was a genius with wood his precision engineering is so perfect in his work that I believe he could have made an engine from wood & it would start up & actually run, albeit for a few seconds.

Throughout this sideboard which is an Amazing Work of Art he has carved 57 florets which are so life like you can almost smell their scent even the handles are carved rosettes which your hand feels so natural to touch as you pull a drawer open or pull down the draw bridge doors at each side giving more flat surface area to serve from, the door fronts also bordered with subtle tiny rosette detailing within it & flowing foliage carving to the edges of the front & side aprons. From a plan view the front & back legs are sculptured to a curved angular shape which is accentuated at each corner of the serving area where it then bows out wonderfully to the centre of the front making room for the pine-apple shaped support below. It's twin stretchers which come together at 45 degrees also with exposed through tenons are a craftsmen's design dream. The raised back with central enclosure which will display a beautiful object, (this sideboard was probably specifically made to display a special piece for whom it was designed for) the enclosure, which imitates in some respects the entrance to a Grand Manor House, with an inscription 'M' & the date for 1917 carved into a scrolled background. To the back a raised low shelf steps up from the serving area also for displaying more objects yet still leaving a generous proportion of serving area to serve from. A stunning & superior commissioned example from a genius master craftsman who designed & made some the very best Art Furniture of The Period. Circa 1917. This piece was without doubt designed & made by Simpson because all the rest of the craftsmen were serving in the 1st world war with only Arthur & his foreman left to keep the Handicrafts ticking along.
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Cotswold 17
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey for Thomas Elsley, Heart shaped coal shovel & a matching Poker, note the subtle shapes to the handles & the subtle shape to the tongs just where ones hand would be with three cold rivets where the sprung part meets each tong, a pleasure to hold.
See Gilbert, Christopher ‘Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall’, vol 1, p. 145, no. 172 An example exhibited in the Arts & Crafts Society Exhibition, 1902.
Length 66cm & 63.5cm.
£POA.
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Cotswold 18
C.F.A.Voysey. A rare & important dressing table mirror designed by Voysey & made by Arthur Simpson of Kendal.
Circa 1900.
£SOLD.
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Cotswold 19
Earnest Gimson. A beautifully made Cotswold School oak ide chair with original rush seat.
See John Andrews, Arts & Crafts Furniture page 102.
Circa 1900.
£POA.

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Cotswold 20
A unique Arts & Crafts style bureau & matching armchair made by Williams & Cleal, bespoke furniture makers from Somerset. This piece was hand made in 1988 in the true Arts & Crafts style.
They trained under Alan Peters & are associated with the Devon Guild. Exhibit every year at the Worshipful Company of cabinet Makers & are based in Somerset.
Circa 1900.
£POA.
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Cotswold 21
An Arts & Crafts style coffee table by The Barnsey Workshops a pure Cotswold School piece, totally made by hand. With bold, dynamic use of timber, pure form, & made with exposed joints, through tenons & foxwedges. The top secured with adjustable blocks to avoid splitting of top when the timber heats & contracts. Chamfering to most edges & legs. Stamped Barnsley.
Circa 1950's.
£SOLD.
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Cotswold 22
A small Arts & Crafts wall mirror in the manner of CFA Voysey, with bevelled stylised flower to the glass & small lower shelf. Height 22", Width at base 12 1/2". Circa 1905.
£1295.
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Cotswold 23
A carved oak firescreen attributed to A. W. S. Simpson.
Height 34", Depth of cap 6", Width from cap to cap 24 1/2". Circa 1900.
£895.
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Cotswold 24
A well designed Cotswold School oak bedside cabinet attributed to Brynmawr with exposed dovetail details to the top sides & to the base sides, an upper drawer with sculptural Ebony handle & open storage below & with an unusual twin panelled cupboard door also sculptural Ebony handle which pulls down to reveal a storage box.
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£POA.
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Cotswold 25
An iconic Arts & Crafts oak three fold screen the design attributed to CFA Voysey & probably executed by Liberty & Co at the Wyburd studios. The tops of the screen with moulded details. The stain glass with probably the most famous Voysey design of two birds kissing in front of three trees.
Height 75", Width of each screen 21 1/2", Width 64 1/2", Thickness of each panel 1 1/4". Circa 1890.
£SOLD.

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Cotswold 26
A Cotswold School hand made oak dining room suite consisting of six armchairs, matching table & matching sideboard. sculpturally carved & finished to a very high standard indeed, the armchairs all fit under the dining table making it compact considering all those arms.
The sideboard has exposed dovetails & exposed tennon joints & sculptured Walnut handles, the dining table with exposed through joints & pegged joints to the sides
The armchairs displaying finger joints to the upper back rail, pegged joints throughoutwith turned supports below & sculptured armrests, the supports follow down past the seat & unite with a central stretcher in a similar way to the Morris & Co Sussex armchair no doubt where it's inspiration is from, high stretchers to the back & the sides, with drop in leather seats.
Circa 1900.
£POA.

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Cotswold 27
A Walnut corner cupboard the original design by Ernest Gimson & Sidney Barnsley. Although this is superb quality I feel it is not quite up to the quality that Gimson & Barnsley were producing at the turn of the century & therefore later somewhere before the 1920's. There is a photograph of an oak version on page 99, fig 64 of 'Gimson & the Barnsleys' by Mary Greensted 1980, (behind the white ladder back chair images attached). For a later rendition which is in Lotherton Hall. See also Gilbert, Christopher 'Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall', vol I, London 1978, p. 59, no. 41, illustrated with the design sketch. This version of 1903 is in oak and was purchased by Henry H. Peach, Dryad Works, Leicester in 1915. Height 78 1/2" 200cm, Depth from back along each side 22" 55cm, Width 39" 98cm.
Height 78 1/2" 200cm, Depth from back along each side 22" 55cm, Width 39" 98cm.
£3750.

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Cotswold 28
A Cotswold School hand made dining table with eight matching chairs made by the Barnsley workshops consisting of an eight seater octagonal dining table with four stretchers united by a wonderful cross/square detail with exposed dovetail & peg joints, the eight chairs with upholstered seats & backs & exposed finger joints to the top & raised stretchers.
Table Width 57 1/2".
£SOLD.
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Cotswold 29
Arthur Simpson of Kendal (attributed)., a rare Arts & Crafts hatstand with a copper lantern to the top, copper coat hooks below the lantern & umbrella/walking stick retainers lower down with hand formed copper drip trays to the base. This was purchased in the Lake district. Height 89", Width at the base which is the widest point 19".
Circa 1900.
£POA.

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Cotswold 30
An Arts & Crafts cabinet/linen press by Arthur Simpson of Kendal with cupboard to the top & 2 drawers below with sculptured Cuban Mahogany handles. Makers disc label to the back.
£POA.
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Cotswold 31
An Arts & Crafts oak bureau by Arthur Simpson of Kendal, with leather writing area & a fitted interior, the three drawers with sculptured Bog Oak handles, numbered 9408 to the back.
Height 30", Depth 17", Width 42". C1910.
£POA.

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Cotswold 32
Arthur Simpson. An oak Arts & Crafts stool with inset studded woven leather seat. Circa 1900.
£SOLD.
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Cotswold 33
An Arts & Crafts oak sideboard by Romney Green.
Height 31", Depth 20", Length 70". Circa 1900.
£SOLD.
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Cotswold 34
A good quality 1/4 sawn oak blanket chest/trunk in the Cotswold style of panelled construction with simple 45 degree birds beak end details to the inner panel sides & exposed peg joints throughout.
Height 26 1/4", Width 37", Depth 18 1/2". Circa 1910.
£SOLD.
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Cotswold 35
A pair of craftsmen made bed sidetables, with square tops & 2 open shelves below & exposed through tennons with little wedges banged into the ends (last 2 images detail shown) they are all as solid as a rock, 2 are a matching pair & one has only rounded ends on two sides of the very top the pair have this detail to each corner at the top. They are all the same measurements.
Height 26 3/4", Length 21 3/4", Depth 12 1/4". Circa 1910.
£SOLD.
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Cotswold 37
An impressive Arts & Crafts carved oak bookcase in the style of Arthur Simpson with stylised floral, berry & leaf carving to the cornice & lower break front comparable to Arthur Simpson's work. A good deep bookcase with three glazed doors with subtle shaped detailing to the upper glazing, adjustable adjustable shelves to the top & 3 further cupboards to the base each with a shelf & quality stylised brass handles.
Height 8', Width 8'1", Depth of base 17 1/2".
£POA.
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Cotswold 38
A superb quality Cotswold style desk attributed to Gordon Russell with open top work area, single drawer to the left & a bank of drawers on the right with cross stretcher/foot rest uniting the side the whole made with exposed tennon joints & recessed cupped handles.
Height 31 1/2", Length 45", Depth 24". 1930's.
£1295.
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Cotswold 39
A Heals & Son Oak Cotswold School bureau with exposed tennons to the top & just above the base, fall down flap opening to reveal writing area with 2 drawers & D shaped handels below on turned legs united by stretchers.
Height 42" Width 29 1/2”, Depth 16”. Circa 1950's.
Circa 1920.
£SOLD.
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Cotswold 40
A pair of Armchairs designed by E. Gimson & made by Gardener. Re-rushed.
Circa 1905.
£SOLD.
Ernest Gimson revived this ancient village craft of making ash & oak chairs with rush seats to the true traditions of The Arts & Crafts Movement. Philip Clissett was a very skilled chair maker working at Bosbury in Herefordshire since 1838 & Gimson took lessons from him in 1890 where he learnt how particularly chairs are an integral part of peoples everyday lives, moving with us brought back to life when one rests upon it-AFG 09.
Gimson's workshops were at Daneway in Gloucestershire & he inspired & taught Edward Gardiner this old art of chair making. Edward Gardiner later moved to Warwickshire where he worked until he died in 1958.
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Cotswold 41
A pair of Cotswold School Arts & Crafts ladderback armchairs called 'The Clisset' made by Edward Gardner, one is stamped on the inside leg. With scribed legs & dowelled at each joint. There are 4 matching dining chairs below.
Circa 1890.
£POA.
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Cotswold 41a
A set of 4 Arts & Crafts ladderback chairs called 'The Clisset' made by Edward Gardner, with scribed legs & dowelled at each joint.
There are three matching armchair's two above & one below which needs re-rushing.
Circa 1890.
£POA.
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Cotswold 41b
A Cotswold School Arts & Crafts ladderback armchair called 'The Clisset' made by Edward Gardner, with scribed legs & dowelled at each joint this one has had restoration to the back ladders which one can see in the last image but is sound & usable & requires re-rushing which I can organise if required.
Circa 1890.
£495.
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Cotswold 42
A top quality very stylish set of 4 Arts & Crafts oak tri-pod chairs of very interesting design in the manner of Arthur Simpson of Kendal with stylised handles to the back & shaped seat all with exposed joints.
Circa 1900.
£395 each.
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Cotswold 43
A top quality oak Arts & Crafts Cotswold School armchair with pierced floral detail to the back, shaped arms, exposed tennons & interesting array of stretchers with lower shelf.
Circa 1900.
£595.
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Cotswold 44
A Cotswold School oak rocking chair in the style of Gimson with new re-rush seat.
Circa 1910.
£995.
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Cotswold 45
A fine quality ladder back rush seat Arts & Crafts oak chair design atttributed to C.F.A.Voysey with sculptured discs to the tops on octagonal uprights which change to square at the back legs & 4 perfectly shaped ladders.
Circa 1895.
£POA.
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Cotswold 46
A superb quality little Arts & Crafts oak bookcase with upper angular gulley perfect for CD's & DVD' or books with a shelf below & a cupboard to the base with pull down door perfect for CD's & DVD's or books. In the manner of Arthur Simpson.
Height 30 1/2", Length 24 1/2", Depth 8 1/2". Circa 1895.
£POA.
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Cotswold SOLD.
A rare pair of C F A Voysey plant stands, the book from which this information has been sorced is :- Good Citizens Furniture, The Arts & Crafts Collection at Cheltenham Museam by Annette Carruthers & Mary Greenstead. ISBN 0 85331 650 3. For an identical plantstand is illustrated.
Width 12" Sq Height 36". Circa 1890's.
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Cotswold Dressing Table. SOLD.
Arthur Simpson of Kendal. One of the nicest most unusual oak Arts & Crafts dressing tables I have ever come across. Designed for two people to share, certainly designed with Love & sharing in mind.
Width 71" Depth 23" Height 62". Circa 1890.
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Cotswold Dressing Table. SOLD.
A well thought out design, superiorcraftsmanship, the precision dovetailing to the drawers, its serpentine side drawers, how the inlays to the drawers meet opposite under the handles & stop just before the escutcheons, how they are perfectly matched in each corner. A superb example of beauty, design, function & craftsmanship.
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Cotswold Dressing Table. SOLD.
The hand made copper metalwork was designed & made by Richard Rathbone, who made metalwork for Morris & Co & Arthur Simpson of Kendal. He was one of the best metalworkers of the Arts & Crafts period (for further examples of his work see The Studio year book 1899-1900 page 255), the handles all formed in the shapes of hearts some incorporating the escutcheons all with hand twisted drops, the mirror posts with the bases curving up to hold the bevelled mirrors & a subtle curl to each corner, the mirrors swivel forwards, backwards & side to side, with Knee space & foot rests to each side.
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Cotswold SOLD.
A superb quality chunky Arts & Crafts Oak 8 seater 'Tretower' refectory dining table designed by Paul Matt who was the key figure in the design & manufacture of Brynmawr Furniture, son of a German cabinet maker (who had made furniture to the designs of Charles Rennie Mackintosh), Matt served his apprenticeship with his father. He arrived in Brynmawr in 1929, keen to help in the Quaker project however he could. He set up the furniture workshop early in 1930. What is revealed by his designs for Brynmawr furniture is a knowledge of the Arts and Crafts movement, & continental Modernism, combined with a very practical approach to the materials, facilities & labour available. It is made from excellent 1/4 sawn oak & solid as a rock. This is a pure hand craftsman built table. The table design was made as a standard 6' model like this one. Length 6', Width 32 1/4". Circa 1931/32. £POA.
There are images of an 8' version that I have now sold which had it's original label in my 'Some Better Items I Have Sold Pages :- Heals/Cotswold/Arthur Simpson & The Lake District/Mouseman PAGE' near the bottom of the index page.
I would like to thank Neil and Debra for providing me with much of the information above on Paul Matt & The Brynmawr Furniture Co.
Here is some information I have managed to unearth about Brynmawr Furniture Makers particularly a wonderful testimony about a truly beautiful gentleman who spent much of his life at Brynmawr. Any more information would be gratefully recieved. Thankyou & enjoy as I did when I first read it.
23.58 Testimony concerning Arthur Basil Reynolds (1903-1960):
Arthur Basil Reynolds ... had that strong sense of the indwelling spirit of God which perforce claimed kinship with everything good and of enduring value in other men and in the world at large. He worked for the continuity of the good life; and to preserve what was good from the past, to hold fast and perpetuate what was good in the present and to work for the hope of good in the future. He was a man of creative imagination, a craftsman with vision and courage who delighted in the work of his hands and was able to inspire others with the same spirit. He had the seeing eye and the unerring hand to translate the vision into actuality. As he walked the countryside a twig in the hedge would suggest a shape of grace and gaiety and his penknife would speedily produce a dancing figure of elfish beauty. All that he touched witnessed to this creative power. His training as a cabinet-maker was put to use in the workshops at Brynmawr during the unemployment and distress of the depression, when he worked with Friends & others to provide employment & thus to bring renewed hope & self-respect to the mining community. He became manager of the Brynmawr Furniture Makers, an undertaking that successfully produced worthy & beautiful furniture. Hereford & Radnor Monthly Meeting, 1961
written by Garth Reynolds :-
Sir/ Madam, I have today seen the Testimony to Arthur Reynolds on your web site, and I note that you would like to hear anything further about him. I am his eldest son, and was born in Brynmawr whilst he was working for the Brynmawr Furniture company. Initially he went there as designer, but after Paul Matt moved on to another similar project my father became manager. In, I believe 1938/9 we all moved back to his home town of Bridport in Dorset. When war broke out he joined up in the R.A.O.C. and rose through the ranks to Majour, and was awarded the M.B.E. After the war he set up his own company Reynolds Woodware Ltd. in Ludlow, where he continued to make Arts and Crafts style furniture mainly following Earnest Gimson and latterly other solid wood furniture of his own distinctive designs. In 1948 I joined the company as an apprentice for five years, and then after serving for two years with the Friends Ambulance Unit International Service, as an alternative to the then compulsory military service, I worked for two years as a journyman with Gordon Russell of Broadway, before returning to Reynolds Woodware. When my father died suddenly in 1960 at only 57 I took over the running of the company, with my younger brother, and although design styles changed over the years, much of what we produced was made of solid wood, and had at least echos of the Arts and Crafts movement. In 1976 I designed a suite of dining furniture in the style of Charles Rene Macintosh of which we were only going to make 30 sets, to mark the 30th anniversary of the company. However in early January 1977 the factory was destroyed by fire, and only some five or six sets were actually made and sold. Although we restarted in other premesis in Ludlow, for various reasons we were not successful, and in 1979/80 the company folded and I went on to work elsewhere. I am now retired but still retain a small workshop, making a few pieces mainly in the style of C.R.M. If there is anything further I can tell you about the remarkable man who was my father I would be very pleased to help. Regards Garth Reynolds
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Cotswold SOLD. Ernest Gimson revived this ancient village craft of making ash & oak chairs with rush seats to the true traditions of The Arts and Crafts Movement. Philip Clissett was a very skilled chair maker working at Bosbury in Herefordshire since 1838 and Gimson took lessons from him in 1890. Gimson's workshops were at Daneway in Gloucestershire & he inspired & taught Edward Gardiner this old art of chair making. Edward Gardiner later moved to Warwickshire where he worked until he died in 1958.
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Cotswold SOLD.
A Gordon Russell Oak twin pedestal desk, a high quality well designed work of art & marrying 3 woods together. The English Walnut top & curved ribbed front flanked by 2 full length almost elongated drawers with 1/4 sawn oak linings with perfect hand cut dovetails & 2 pedestal cupboards below all with bog oak handles sweetly incorporating the escutions opening to reveal a bank of 4 filing drawers & conforming ribbed detail to the base.
Height 30", Length 52", Depth 27 /2".
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Cotswold SOLD.
A Gordon Russell desk top set of drawers made with English oak & English Walnut with English Walnut sculptured handles.
Height 11", Depth 8", Width 25 1/2". Circa 1900.
£SOLD.
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Cotswold SOLD.
An excellent quality sculptured 1/4 sawn Oak Arts & Crafts sideboard in the Cotswold style attributed to Eric Sharpe with 3 cupboards the doors of protruding pegged construction with a cuttlery drawer behind the centre one, scolloped detailing to the edges & exposed dovetail joints to the sides & on curved base with sledge style feet with further scolloped detailing.
Height 33", Width 5', Depth 21".
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Cotswold SOLD.
A Brynmawr oak bedside cabinet in the Cotswold style with exposed dovetails to the top & to the base with fall down door & large lower cupboard.
Height 27 1/2", Depth 10 1/2", Width 14 1/2". Circa 1895.
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Cotswold SOLD.
A top quality pair of Cotswold Arts & Crafts oak bed sidetable/bookcases with exposed dovetail construction & sledge feet attributed to Edward Barnsley, 1 stamped 45 the other 32 to the undertier.
Height 27", Width 17 3/4", Depth 13". Circa 1900.
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Cotswold SOLD.
A well designed oak dropleaf dining table by Romney Green. A sculptual work of Art with scalloped details to the legs.
Height 29" Width 61" Depth 42".
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Cotswold SOLD.
A superb quality Cotswold School oak bedside cabinet with exposed dovetail construction & double opening just below the top area for access from the bed & the front a rather ingenious design detail with panelled door opening to reveal further storage with fixed shelf on plinth style base.
Height 30 1/2", Width of base 13 1/2", Depth of base 12 1/2".
Circa 1900.
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Cotswold SOLD.
An excellent quality Cotswold School Oak Arts & Crafts revolving stool with Gothic revival influences. Circa 1900.
Height 19", Width of the seat 13 1/2". Circa 1900.
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