Lot 148
PETER WAALS (1870-1937)
OAK 'MAN'S DRESSING TABLE', CIRCA 1930
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860
Auction: 25 October 2017 at 11:00 BST
Description
the shaped rectangular top above single drawer with cupboard below, flanked by eight further drawers, wrought double scroll handles with chased decoration
Dimensions
122cm wide, 97cm high, 56cm deep
Footnote
Literature: 'The Furniture & Joinery of Peter Waals' The Alcuin Press, 1930, plate 9., where a similar piece is illustrated and described as 'Man's Dressing Table in Oak'.
Note: Peter van der Waals was born in Holland in 1870 and worked as a foreman for Ernest Gimson at his workshop in Daneway House near Sapperton, Gloucestershire, England. The workshops had been started by Gimson and Sidney and Ernest Barnsley to produce furniture in the tradition of the Arts & Crafts Movement. This cabinet was inspired by British furniture of the 17th century and demonstrates the continuing strength of the Arts and Crafts tradition in Britain even after World War I. After Gimson’s death in 1919, van der Waals started his own workshop in Chalford, Gloucestershire, producing domestic furniture.