Walnut Dressing Table by Stanley Webb Davies, Dated 1934 (Out of Stock)

£8,500

SKU: C539

Start Date: 1934

Medium: Walnut

Marked inside cupboard

Height: 163

Width: 152.5

Length: 50.5

Current condition: Excellent Condition

Country: England

An important Dressing Table by Stanley Webb Davies.
Walnut
Centred by a central Mirror, with chip carved details, flanked each side by an integral light, a cupboard with internal ratchet mirror. A drawer and graduated drawers.
Signed with monograms.
Dated 1934
England
Craftsman; Ernest John Oldcom.
152.5 cm wide x 50.5 cm deep x 163 cm high

Stanley Webb Davies (1894-1978) was born into a wealthy Mill owning family in Lancashire, and was educated at Bootham, a Quaker school in York, he then studied History at Oxford. During WWI he was a member of The Friends War Victims Relief Team and built huts for refugees, which in turn developed his love of woodwork.
After the war he worked for Romney Green at his workshop in Christchurch, Hampshire. In 1922 with help from his father , he built his new home and workshop called Gatesbield which was designed by the architect Kenneth Cross. He worked there for the rest of his life and adhered to the Arts and Crafts Movements ideals of the Craftsmen- maker versus machine production.
He designed and made domestic and ecclesiastical furniture, presentation pieces, and items for boardrooms. Most of his work was made to commission and he was resolute in never producing exactly the same design twice. His workshop closed on his retirement in 1961.