STANLEY WEBB DAVIES (1894-1978)
ARTS & CRAFTS CENTRE TABLE, DATED 1931
£1,500
Auction: Design Since 1860 | 20 October 2021 From 10:00
Description
walnut, carved maker's cypher and date
Dimensions
76cm diameter, 61cm high
Footnote
Note: During the First World War, Stanley Webb Davies spent much of his time in France building huts for refugees. This only further deepened his love for woodworking which he had developed since he was a young boy at school. Upon his return from the war in 1920, he became an apprentice to Arthur Romney Green, before setting up his own workshop in Windermere in 1923, where he worked until his retirement in 1961. Davies’ work ultimately represents a reaction against machine-made furniture of the Victorian era. Instead, he sought to celebrate the physical demands of the craftsman by exposing certain elements of the construction and using techniques such as chamfering which focussed one’s attention to the character of the timber and skill involved in making simple and elegant handmade pieces. He kept a small stock in his workshop but much of the designs he produced throughout his career were made to commission.