Charlie Mackesy The Boy, the Mole, the Fox & the Horse SIGNED set - 1st Edition

A wonderful and skilfully executed piece of Swedish Folk Art. In 1925 readers of the Swedish family magazine Allérs familj-journal, would have found instructions for building this im...

English Gentlemen Style Antique Leather Suitcase by Bick Bros Cheltenham Step back into the golden age of travel with this handsome early 20th-century suitcase, made by Bick Bros of...

An organic and Brutalist style Jardine which would work perfectly with trailing foliage. Bernard Rooke (born 1938) is a British artist and studio potter. Rooke has exhibited his "Brutalist" ceramics and painting both in the UK and abroad with work in many collections both public and private including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, Nuffield Foundation, Röhsska Museum in Sweden and the Trondheim Kunstmuseum in Norway. Bernard Rooke attended Ipswich School of Art studying painting and lithography before going on to study at Goldsmiths College of Art. It was while studying here that he decided to take up pottery. Although unfamiliar with this craft and tradition, he found that working with clay provided new opportunities for freedom of interpretation and creativity. In 1960 Rooke set up his first pottery in Forest Hill in South London along with Alan Wallwork. It was a very small room with enough space for a small electric kiln. He was initially using mainly hand building, coiling, blocking and slabbing techniques. While researching ideas, he was supporting himself by part-time lecturing at London University, Goldsmiths College and St Mary's College. In addition, Rooke's membership of 'The Craftsman Potters' Association' enabled him to show his work in a shop in Carnaby Street in London. In 1967, both the need for a larger working space and becoming disillusioned with living in London spurred Rooke into moving out of the city and to an old mill building in Swilland in Suffolk. Rooke wanted to widen the range of work so as to become more commercial. With the birth of his son, Aaron, and much needed work to be done on the mill, it was important to be able to make a living. In 1968, the Grand Metropolitan Hotel commissioned Rooke to make 120 standard lamps, 120 table lamps as well as a 24 foot long ceramic mural and another 9 foot high, which incorporated interior lighting. The money from the commission helped to pay for much needed restoration work on the mill. By the 1970s, a gallery space was opened in the windmill and run by Susan Rooke, Bernard's wife, selling work to locals and tourists as well as to American airmen based nearby. The vision for Mill Gallery was beginning to develop and alongside this a reputation was building bringing in a good source of income. Sons Aaron and Felix were becoming more involved with the running of the pottery, giving Bernard more time to develop new ideas and designs and more time to continue with his painting. In 2004, the Rooke family decided not to sell to the public through the gallery anymore and close the pottery to concentrate more on painting and printmaking. In 2017 Bernard's lighting was featured in the Exhibition: “Glass, Light, Paint & Clay” at the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery. The exhibition featured four artists: Bernard Rooke, John Maltby...

Set of 4 Vintage Made Vono Wheels with Distinctive Fender Design 1950’s This set of 4 Made Vono wheels, crafted by the British furniture maker Vono, captures the rugged charm and fu...

This is a set of 6 First Edition novels by Minette Walters. An English language, author signed hard-bound collection of crime writing, dating to the turn of the 21st century. An award-winning author, Minette Walters (September 1949) has written over 15 titles since her first novel The Ice House...

AUTHOR: MILNE, A. A. TITLE: Now We Are Six. PUBLISHER: London: Methuen Children's Books, 1977. DESCRIPTION: LIMITED SIGNED EDITION. 1 vol., 7-9/16" x 5-3/16", limited to 300 numb...

A collection of novels from the Cadfael Chronicles by English author Edith Pargether, most volumes are signed by the author. Twenty-two volumes. Twenty volumes of the twenty-one nov...

12 Volumes. Charles Lamb, The Life and Works. Bound by Birdsall in full red morocco. Edition de Luxe. Each volume features a scene depicted in multicolored onlays, set within a singl...