A COTSWOLD SCHOOL ARTS AND CRAFTS OAK WARDROBE BY ERNEST GIM...

Hammer

£4,800

A COTSWOLD SCHOOL ARTS AND CRAFTS OAK WARDROBE BY ERNEST GIMSON. A large and impressive oak Cotswold School wardrobe by Ernest Gimson for W.R.S. Bathurst at Pinbury Park Gloucestershire. The wardrobe with a bow fronted door and gently curved sides, with horizontal and vertical chip carved decoration and exposed tenon joints. Supported on heavy sleigh type legs with block fronted feet. 182cms high, 92cms wide, 55cm deep. Sydney Barnsley first came across Pinbury Park in the early 1890's, the building and location captivated the young London based architects. The run down picturesque charm of the buildings in the heart of the idyllic Cotswolds was all that the young idealistic men could have dreamed of. In 1901 when Lord Bathurst was newly married he took the property back for his own use. He allowed Gimson and the Barnsley Brothers to used Daneway House as workshops and showrooms, premises that were big enough to allow Gimson to expand his furniture making business and take on staff. It is Danebury that this Wardrobe will have been made. The cupboard perfectly evokes the ideal of Arts and Crafts furniture that William Morris proposed in 1898: So I say our furniture should be good citizens furniture, solid and well made in workmanship ... Made on the proper principles of joinery: also I think that except for movable things like chairs, it should be made of timber rather than walking sticks. On the market for the first time with a direct line of descent through the family of one of the most important Cotswold School Patrons. In use on a daily basis as useful, practical and much loved cupboard this piece of furniture typifies all that we expect to see in the best Cotswold school furniture. This is a further piece from the collection from Pinbury which came to the market in 2009.

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Some marks and scuff marks to the door in places, and also to the sides, missing it's original shelves from inside. Sides, the panels have opened up slightly in places over time leaving small gaps along the edges.