Gordon Russell, Arts & Crafts Cotswold School Oak Hayrake Stretcher Dining Table

Sidney Barnsley attributed. A rare Cotswold School Arts and Crafts hayrake oak dining table with a rare double use of the hayrake stretcher design, one...

M H Baillie Scott made by John P White at the Pyghtle Works. A rare Arts and Crafts oak dining table. The end cross planked top sails...

C F A Voysey in the style of. An Arts & Crafts oak dining or library table with four stylized floral cut-outs flanked by dove cut-outs to each corner to the angled apron underneath ...

Heals and Son. An Arts and Crafts narrow oak extending dining table with two leaves.Dimensions: Height 76 cm x Width 137 cm x Depth 69 cmExtended: Height 76 cm x Width 183 cm x Depth...

Arts & Crafts oak dining table after a Sidney Barnsley design With butterfly jointing Carved, angled detailing and ‘hayrake’ stretcher Circa 1980 Height 76cm. Length 195cm. Heigh...

An exceptional Mission or Arts & Crafts style solid oak harvest farm extension dining table with inlaid bowtie design By L. & J.G. Stickley USA, 2007 Measures: 60"W x 42.13"D x 30...

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...

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...