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Arthur W. Simpson (The Handicrafts, Kendal): Arthur W. Simpson and his Kendal based furniture making company 'The Handicrafts' was a renowned arts and crafts maker associated with very high quality hand crafted furniture, who worked with by members of the Artworker's Guild, such as Voysey and Baillie-Scott. Today, items of Simpson furniture are hard to find and avidly collected. Materials, workmanship and design are always of the highest quality
The Arts & Crafts Lakes School was a development of the Arts and Craft Cotswold School. The most significant designers and makers were Arthur Simpson, in Kendal, Stanley Webb Davies at Windermere and the Keswick School of Industrial Arts. Peter Hall of Staveley still produces furniture in this tradition. The Lakes School maintained the ideals with its simple lines, attention to the finest of details, the use of beautiful locally materials and the focus traditional tools and techniques. In fact Stanley Webb Davies' workshop didn't use any power tools at all, even to cut logs from timber!The dominant material was English Oak and typical decorative details often include exposed joints and subtle carved details
Collections: All, Arts & Crafts Furniture by Arthur W. Simpson, Arts & Crafts Lakes School Furniture, Out of Stock, Sold
Category: Arthur W. Simpson, egnition-oos-police, exp0000027, Maker_Arthur W. Simpson
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Features A robert 'mouseman' thompson handmade custom oak 6ft table with 8 chairs c.1960 by robert 'mouseman' thompson made in c.1960 Comment A very impressive...
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Features A very large original 'Curvispective' oil on board entitled 'Working Together' in the original grey hand-made frame (also by Wade), showing a classic hunting...
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Features In quarter sawn oak with pegged joints and arched supports. The retail price of this table from Peter Hall is å£7000 Comment A very...
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