An Arts & Crafts Yorkshire School Oak Dressing Table by Alan 'Acornman' Grainger (Ex-Mouseman) c. 1970. A lovely dressing table in the classic Yorkshire School Style. Style, plenty of legroom, generous storage space in drawers and an adjustable mirror; the ideal dressing table. Featuring:

• Solid English Oak throughout.

• 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.

• Rectangular top made out of just two continuous pieces of solid oak.

• Five drawers (made with single plank fronts solid drawer carcasses joined with hand-cut lap and through dovetails and solid bases).

• Sides with single plank fielded panels surrounded by rails and stiles joined by blind tenons secured with hand made pegs.

• Large adjustable triptych mirror.

• Handmade wrought iron fittings.

Approximate dimensions are:

• Overall Width 1140mm (3 feet 8 3/4 inches).

• Overall Depth 480mm (1 foot 6 3/4 inches).

• Base Height 760mm (2 feet 5 3/4 inches).

• Overall Height 1520mm (4 feet 11 3/4 inches).

c. 1970.

Alan Grainger's inset finely carved signature acorn motif.

Very nice condition with excellent colour and grain, smoothly sliding drawers, tight joints and clean finish., A few minor marks and dints discoverable upon close inspection, less than expected for expected with an item that has been in use for 50 or so years. 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.

Acorn Industries was started by George Grainger, a former Robert "Mouseman' Thompson craftsman, in the mid-30s. He trained his son Alan (and Derek 'Lizardman' Slater) who later took over and developed the business. Renowned for high quality pieces, all hand made, usually from English oak and all bearing the acorn mark.

The most British of woods, that can produce really special results. Oak has been used for hundreds of years to construct everything from sea-going vessels to fine furniture. 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.