Arts & Crafts Table Lamp by W.A.S. Benson

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Arts & Crafts Table Lamp by W.A.S. Benson

Name: Arts & Crafts Table Lamp by W.A.S. Benson
Brand: W.A.S. Benson
Price: 4388.92 USD

About

An Arts & Crafts converted oil lamp Silver plate on brass The stylised leaf design surrounding the oil reservoir is very much a signature of Benson There is a wonderful naturalistic design to the foot The height of the lamp is 69cm The height to the top of the shade is 90cm (shade included) This lamp is an original by BensonWilliam Arthur Smith Benson (1854-1924) Benson inherited his love of art and beauty from his mother Elizabeth. His father, also William, was a barrister at Lincoln’s Inn and his son together with five younger siblings grew up enjoying the comfort of an upper middle-class life. After Winchester and Oxford, the younger William became a pupil of the rising architect Basil Champneys. By 1877, having begun to realise that he wanted more than a career in architecture alone, chance brought him into contact with Edward Burne-Jones. The following year, while visiting Burne-Jones at the Grange, Fulham, he met William Morris; it was through their combined encouragement that, in 1880, Benson set up a small workshop. At first he made furniture, retailed through Morris & Co, but soon began in earnest to design and manufacture the metalwork, which was to occupy him until the outbreak of the First World War. Although Benson ran a successful business from the Eyot Works, Hammersmith, he was constantly driven by his desire to make things. ‘The long and short of it is, I must make something or be miserable. If one is working for anyone else, one’s ideas are only in the way – here are things wanting to be done and I long to do them, and I think there is every chance of profit as well as pleasure.’ (letter to his father, 17 January 1880, quoted in Ian Hamerton, et al., W.A.S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design, Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club, 2005, p. 6).

Details

Creator:
W.A.S. Benson (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 27.17 in (69 cm)Diameter: 9.45 in (24 cm)
Style:
Arts and Crafts (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass,Silvered
Place of Origin:
England
Period:
1900-1909
Date of Manufacture:
1900
Condition:
Rewired: This item has been rewired to current safety standards. Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Petworth, GB
Reference Number:
Seller: O1881stDibs: LU6747230833512