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Bureau
Davies, Stanley Webb, born 1894 - died 1978 - Enlarge image
Bureau
- Place of origin:
Lake District, England (made)
- Date:
1945-1955 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Davies, Stanley Webb, born 1894 - died 1978 (made)
- Materials and Techniques:
Oak, with pine drawer linings and handles possibly of ebony, with carving
- Credit Line:
Bequeathed by Stanley Webb Davies
- Museum number:
W.142-1978
- Gallery location:
In Storage
This is an example of small workshop furniture production in the Arts and Crafts style. It was made in the workshop of Stanley Webb Davies, an Oxford history graduate who trained as a cabinet maker in Romney Green's workshop in Christchurch, Hampshire. By 1926 Stanley Webb Davies had established his own workshop at Windermere, in the Lake District. Here he worked with a team of between three and seven assistants until he retired in1961.
Davies designed and made domestic and ecclesiastical furniture, presentation pieces, and items for boardrooms and offices. Most of his work was made to commission. This bureau was made for his own use and he bequeathed it to the Museum on his death.
