Arts & Crafts Furniture
Derek 'Lizardman' Slater Arts & Crafts Yorkshire School English Oak Bureau c. 1970.
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An Arts & Crafts Yorkshire School English Oak Bureau by Derek 'Lizardman' Slater c. 1970. A very attractive and equally useful piece of furniture from the early period of one of the Yorkshire School makers and a lovely colour. Copious space to store correspondence and a good work area that closes up to keep everything tidy. Featuring:
- Solid English Oak throughout.
- Very well figured quarter-sawn English Oak (quarter-sawing is a way of sawing oak to produce boards with superior strength which also reveals decorative 'medullary rays' in its grain).
- Subtly adzed on all visible surfaces (the subtle surface rippling synonymous with Yorkshire School furniture) Adzing does not interfere with use and objects will happy stand steadily on an adzed surface.
- 3 graduated drawers (made with single plank fronts solid drawer carcasses joined with hand-cut lap and through dovetails drawer slips and solid (quarter sawn oak!) bases).
- Fall front single plank fielded panels surrounded by rails and stiles joined by through tenons secured with hand made pegs opening to provide a leather covered writing surface.
- Internal pigeon holes and 6 drawers (made with single plank fronts solid drawer carcasses joined with hand-cut lap and through dovetails and solid bases).
- Hand carved oak handles.
- Planked back.
- Plinth with exposed dovetails at each corner and button screwed fixing.
- 2 plank sides.
Approximate dimensions are:
- Overall Height 990mm (3 feet 2 3/4 inches).
- Overall Width 910mm (2 feet 11 3/4 inches).
- Overall Depth 440mm (1 foot 5 1/4 inches).
c. 1970.
Derek Lizardman Slater's carved fish motif. Derek Lizardman Slater's carved fish motif (Derek used a fish motif for his earliest work, changing later to a lizard).
Excellent condition with excellent rich colour and grain, snugly closing fall front, smoothly sliding drawers, tight joints and clean finish. Key not present. A few very minor marks and dints discoverable upon close inspection, but far less than expected with an item that has been in use for half a century!. If you wish to have further specific photographs or talk to us for a more detailed condition report then please do not hesitate to contact us.
A former apprentice from Acorn Industries (Alan 'Acornman' Grainger) know for his quality work in oak in the Yorkshire School style and trademark carved Lizard. He worked with with ex-Mouseman apprentice Martin Dutton under the trade name 'Woodcarvers of Crayke'.
The most British of woods, that can produce really special results. English oak has been used for hundreds of years to construct everything from sea-going vessels to fine furniture. Although oak grows widely across Europe and North America, craftsmen continue to cherish English oak which grows more slowly than its foreign counterparts giving it strength, durability. Quarter sawn boards are very straight grained and have distinctive growth rings and medullary rays that give a very beautiful effect as well as being renowned for their superior stability and strength.
The Yorkshire School of the Arts & Crafts movement started with Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson's transformation from jobbing carpenter to master craftsmen. By the mid-1920s he had adopted his trademark mouse (now world renowned as a symbol of quality furniture) and had his own workshop busily employing several men. As the workshop grew and over the years many of the craftsmen have taken their skills and branched out and adopted a trademark of their own, a fox, a lizard, a fish, a rabbit to name but a few, and whilst some have closely stuck to the Mouseman designs others have taken the style and adapted it. Other craftsmen, unconnected to the Mouseman workshop, have also chosen the classic Yorkshire Oak style as their own. Typical Yorkshire school items are in English Oak, with traditional pegged joints and adzed surfaces.
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