Cotswold School Oak Dining Room Suite By Gordon Russell

Rare set of four Arts and Crafts Cotswold School ladder back dining chairs by Gordon Russell. Ash with woven leather seats. We have cleaned the chairs with wax and have replaced 3 o...

Super stylish ‘Modernist' Walnut and Glass adjustable table top mirror. Designed by Dick Russell for Gordon Russell Circa 1930 Richard (Dick) Russel...

Arts & Crafts Cotswold School oak refectory table with chamfered detailing and no-screw construction 6 - 8 seater After a design By Peter Waals Made by Fred Gardiner Cotswold School Circa 1950 The table is made using construction details used by Peter Waals, this entails sliding the top on to the base using a dovetail joint the width of the top making it very stable and simple to the eye, no blocks and no screws, a very skilful task. Its very rare to find furniture stamped by Gardiner. FRED GARDINER (1890-1963) Gardiner was the son of a builder and was born at Water Lane in Gloucestershire. He trained with Ernest...

Early Arts & Crafts Wishbone Cotswold School refectory dining table in oak 3 plank top Square through-tenon jointed legs with Wishbone stretcher Maker: Sidney Barnsley Designer: Ernest Gimson Pinbury Workshop 1898 Ernest Gimson was born in Leicester, in 1864. He was articled to the Leicester architect, Isaac Barradale, and worked at his offices on Grey Friars between 1881 and 1885. Aged 19, he attended a lecture on 'Art and Socialism' at the Leicester Secular Society given by the leader of the Arts and Crafts revival in Victorian England, William Morris, and, greatly inspired, talked with him until two in the morning, after the lecture. Two years later, aged 21, Gimson had both architectural experience and a first class result from classes at Leicester School of Art. He moved to London to gain wider experience, and William Morris wrote him letters of recommendation. The first architectural practice he approached was John Dando Sedding, where he was taken on, and stayed for two years. From Sedding, Gimson derived his interest in craft techniques, the stress on textures and surfaces, naturalistic detail of flowers, leaves and animals, always drawn from life, the close involvement of the architect in the simple processes of building and in the supervision of a team of craftsmen employed direct. Seddings offices were next door to the showrooms of Morris & Co., providing opportunity to see first hand the first flourishing of Arts and Crafts design. He met Ernest Barnsley...

Gordon Russell. A rare super quality Arts & Crafts Cotswold School oak dining table. The oak top with a wonderful wild grain and extended overhang to each end for the comfort of one'...

Gordon Russell Broadway. Designed by W.H. Russell FSIA. A rosewood and mahogany 'Burford' dining suite, comprising of a low side board, with serpentine ...

This is a nest of THREE hardwood, walnut tables by Gordon Russell, Broadway, Worcs, which is a town in the Cotswolds, England and dating to Circa 1950 The tables are slightly larg...

An excellent mid century extending dining table by Gordon Russell produced in the 1950s. The extending leaf neatly tucks away underneath the table top for convenience and ease of acc...