International studio (60.1916/1917)

The Arts and Crafts Exhibition


TABLE CABINET IN ENGLISH WALNUT
DESIGNED BY ERNEST W. GIMSON ; EXECUTED BY P.
among them the only dresser—a very good one
designed by Mr. Ambrose Heal—that found its
way to Burlington House. Mr. Heal showed near
the dresser one of the three bedsteads in the
exhibition, a little four-poster of walnut wood, and
there was another close by in the attractive bed-
room for a small country house designed by

Mr. A. H. Christie and
Mrs. Christie and Mr. F.
W. Troup. The Christie
bedstead was of iron with
painted decoration, and the
furniture of the bedroom
with its white - curtained
window, looking out into
Domus No. i, included
specimens of the work of
Mr. E. W. Gimson, Mr.
Sidney H. Barnsley, Mr.
Robert Christie, Mr. T.
Okey, and Mr. Norman
Jewson.
Another bedroom, open-
ing out of Domus No. 2,
the Women’s Guild of Arts,
and the descriptive notes in the catalogue seem
to suggest that its designers had economy in view
when they were planning it. “ A lady’s bedroom,”
we are told, “ has been furnished by the Women’s
Guild of Arts, in which elaboration and luxury
have been purposely avoided.” Those who read

BURCHETT

was furnished



FIRE IMPLEMENTS DESIGNED BY ERNEST W. GIMSON—THE FIREDOGS EXECUTED BY S. MUSTOE ;
THE SET ON STAND BY ALFRED BUCKNELL

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