An Arts & Crafts Cotswold School Mahogany Cabinet by c. 1910. A very pleasingly simple but elegant design made to and excellent standard and with some trademark Arts & Crafts construction details. Provides a surprisingly large amount of storage. Featuring:

• Solid Mahogany.

• Very well figured Mahogany panels.

• Two doors with single plank steped raised panels surrounded by rails and stiles.

• Exposed fox wedged tenons on the top.

• Exposed dovetails on the top corners and the plinth.

• Handmade Mahogany handles.

• Fixed full width internal shelves.

Approximate dimensions are:

• Overall Width 1220mm (4 feet).

• Overall Depth 450mm (1 foot 5 1/2 inches).

• Overall Height 105mm ( 4 inches).

c. 1910.

Very good condition with excellent rich colour and grain, original finish, snugly closing doors and working hand made catches. Some minor marks and dints, as expected with an item that has been in use for. 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.

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Mahogany has traditionally ranked among the finest cabinet woods and is exceptionally stable and clear with a natural luster.

The Cotswold School was a development of the Arts and Craft Movement started largely by Ernest Gimson and the brothers Sidney and Ernest Barnsley. The furniture is instantly recognisable with its simple lines, attention to the finest of details, and use of beautiful materials. Cotswold School designs were crafted from local materials using traditional tools and techniques and with decorative details derived largely from utilitarian elements: exposed joinery, unusual panels, interesting pulls and latches crafted either from wood or from metal using traditional smithing techniques, and close attention to form as well as to wood grain and pattern. Where decorative details were added they generally took the form of traditional embellishment such as exposed joints, chamfered edges and chip carved edge details. The style was embraced and developed by other designers and craftsmen including Gordon Russell, Stanley Webb Davies in Cumbria, Sid Barnsley's son Edward, Arthur Romney Green in Hampshire, Robin Nance in St Ives and Ambrose Heal are a handful of such men out of many. The best developed their own style within the established tradition.