An Arts & Crafts Cotswold School English Oak Dining Table by Robin Furlong Furniture 2014. A beautifully made table to a very elegant design. Featuring:

• Solid English Oak throughout.

• Very well figured English Oak.

• Oval top made out of just five continuous pieces of very well figured solid timber with rounded and tapered edge.

• Four curved and tapered legs joined by a hay-rake stretcher with feather through tenon joints.

Approximate dimensions are:

• Overall Length 2035mm (6 feet 8 inches).

• Overall Width 1100mm (3 feet 7 1/4 inches).

• Overall Height 735mm (2 feet 4 3/4 inches) [A standard height for a dining table].

2014.

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Excellent condition with excellent colour and grain, tight joints and clean finish. If you wish to have further specific photographs or talk to us for a more detailed condition report then please do not hesitate to contact us.

Robin Furlong opened his first workshop in Great Wolford in 1989, having worked for a number of years with Alan Peters and Martin Grierson working within the rich creative tradition of furniture making in the Cotswolds. He won four Guild Marks awarded by the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers. .

The most British of woods, that can produce really special results. English oak has been used for hundreds of years to construct everything from sea-going vessels to fine furniture. Although oak grows widely across Europe and North America, craftsmen continue to cherish English oak which grows more slowly than its foreign counterparts giving it strength, durability. Quarter sawn boards are very straight grained and have distinctive growth rings and medullary rays that give a very beautiful effect as well as being renowned for their superior stability and strength.

The Cotswold School was a development of the Arts and Craft Movement started largely by Ernest Gimson and the brothers Sidney and Ernest Barnsley. The furniture is instantly recognisable with its simple lines, attention to the finest of details, and use of beautiful materials. Cotswold School designs were crafted from local materials using traditional tools and techniques and with decorative details derived largely from utilitarian elements: exposed joinery, unusual panels, interesting pulls and latches crafted either from wood or from metal using traditional smithing techniques, and close attention to form as well as to wood grain and pattern. Where decorative details were added they generally took the form of traditional embellishment such as exposed joints, chamfered edges and chip carved edge details. The style was embraced and developed by other designers and craftsmen including Gordon Russell, Stanley Webb Davies in Cumbria, Sid Barnsley's son Edward, Arthur Romney Green in Hampshire, Robin Nance in St Ives and Ambrose Heal are a handful of such men out of many. The best developed their own style within the established tradition.