The Millinery Works

Arts & Crafts hall furniture would include coat cupboards, umbrella stands, small tables, which you will find under occasional tables, side chairs which are under occasional chairs and possibly a plant stand which you will find under magazine racks and stands. Attributed to Thonet A Secessionist style bentwood hallstand with central mirror over fall front glove compartment over a stick stand between four 'S' shaped coat. An oak free-standing, Arts & Crafts coat and stick stand, tapering square section form, cross stretcher, ebonised drip tray, circa 1910, maker's label 'Cooke's (Finsbury).

Our specialisation in Arts & crafts furniture from 1876 to 1935 means you will find Cabinets from the Gothic to the Cotswold style in our stock. Perhaps some of the best examples would be the display cabinets, secretaries and cocktail cabinets of the Cotswold School craftsman - Ernest Gimson, Sidney and Ernest Barnsley, Peter Waals and Gordon Russell. A Betty Joel Australian walnut Modernist bookcase/display cabinet, cross-banding to the overhang to the top, one drawer over cupboard, short drawer with asymmetric arrangement of.

As with all our stock we are constantly sourcing fine and original Arts & Crafts furniture for the dining room ranging from the earlier Gothic and Aesthetic periods through the decorative Glasgow and Secessionist schools to the lighter and simpler styles of the Cotswold School, Heals and the craft workshops of the early twentieth century. A Cotswold style oak dining table with chamfered double-column base and scroll foot, pegged and dowelled, circa 1930, 72in (182cm) long, 28in (72.5cm) wide, 30in.

The liviing room serves many purposes in a home - a comfortable place to sit, perhaps round a fire watching TV It is also a place to show off your best bits of furniture, hang your favourite pictures and sit and write letters or emails. So in addition to the obvious sofas and easy chairs our living room stock includes magazine racks, display cabinets and writing tables. A Betty Joel Australian walnut Modernist bookcase/display cabinet, cross-banding to the overhang to the top, one drawer over cupboard, short drawer with asymmetric arrangement of.

Dining chairs in the British Arts & Crafts Movement often featured high backs, Charles Rennie Mackintosh's designs circa 1900 are classic examples and includ the chairs for the Luncheon room in the Argyle Tea Rooms, Glasgow. However, as our stock will show there are many varied designs by other makers that are both beautiful and useful. A set of six Cotswold ash high-back, ladder-back 'Gimson' dining chairs with re-rushed seats, with chamfering to the back of the graduated ladders, designed by. Four oak Gordon Russell Cotswold School ladder back dining chairs, upholstered drop-in seats, by Russell of Broadway, each labelled, circa 1935, 86cm (34in) high, seat 46cm.

Bookcase can be large double sided wall fillers to the small wall shelf for a few precious volumes. They may be glazed or open. The Arts & Crafts period produced quite a few 'pier' bookcases based around the idea of utilising the wall space between two floor to ceiling windows. Today they can be useful alcove fillers. We have a wide collection of Heals & Son at the moment. Heal's A limed, quarter-sawn, oak bureau bookcase, chamfering to the frame, fall-front, fitted interior with two short drawers and pigeon holes, asymmetric arrangement of shelves, .

Although originally designed for handwriting documents, our writing tables and desks provide the ideal place for a computer or laptop sometimes with leather inserts and often with drawers for files and stationery. We are always on the lookout for reasonably priced items form the various styles from Liberty's to the Cotswold and Glasgow schools. Gordon Russell A cherrywood and mahogany Cotswold writing table, moulded edge, on octagonal legs with chamfered stretchers, one drawer to the end on the right.