Voysey designed some of the most elegant and austere metalwork of the Arts and Crafts Movement. He was an important member of the English Arts and Crafts movement. He was a founder member of the Design Club, formed in 1909 which included the architect, William Butterfield, Walter Crane, Lewis F. Day Archibald Knox and Ambrose Heal. The club which ran for five years was the forerunner of the Design and Industries Association and the British Institute of Industrial Art, both of which were to have close associations with the Victoria and Albert Museum. The V&A organised the pioneering exhibition, Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Arts, 1952 which re-evaluated and established this period as a subject worthy of serious academic study. Voysey's work was represented by 17 objects. Subsequently, many of the objects exhibited have entered the V&A collections and have consequently made them one of the most important representations of the English Arts and Crafts movement.

Voysey stands out from most of his fellow architects-designers who joined the Art Workers' Guild and contributed metalwork to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. Instead of setting up his own workshop, he continued the traditional practice of handing over his designs to a trustworthy firm for execution. This encouraged him to ignore the repertory of ornamental techniques used by many metalworkers attached to the Arts and Crafts movement, who habitually embellished their productions with enamels and semi-precious stones. Of Voysey's major contemporaries, only W.A.S. Benson favoured a similar simplicity of form and decoration and Benson, significantly, had his own factory in Hammersmith which was filled with the latest machinery. Unlike Benson however, who increasingly devoted his energies to his metalwork to the exclusion of architecture, Voysey did not design a great deal either for precious or base metals and when he did so it was usually with his architectural schemes in mind. Some of his finest and most characteristic designs for metalwork are the hinges fitted to furniture and doors and the series of cast iron fireplaces of which this is an outstanding example.