An Arts & Crafts Yorkshire School English Oak Chair by Albert Harrison post 1980. An elegant design with the usual Yorkshire School quality or workmanship and materials. Featuring:

• Drop in leather covered seat pads.

• Solid English Oak throughout.

• Tapered legs joined by arched rails and no stretchers.

• Traditional blind tenons secured with pegs.

Approximate dimensions are:

• Overall Height 930mm (3 feet and 1/2 of an inch).

• Overall Width 440mm (1 foot 5 1/4 inches).

• Overall Depth 490mm (1 foot 7 1/4 inches).

• Seat Height 470mm (1 foot 6 1/2 inches) [A standard height for a dining table].

post 1980.

Hand carved signature owl motif on each chair.

Very good condition with good colour and grain, tight joints and clean finish, A few very minor marks and dints discoverable upon close inspection, as expected with an item that has been in use for several decades. 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.

A former Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson craftsman who continued in his own workshop, making high quality items of English Oak, carved with his signature owl motif.

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 Yorkshire School of the Arts & Crafts movement started with Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson's  transformation from jobbing carpenter to master craftsmen. By the mid-1920s he had adopted his trademark mouse (now world renowned as a symbol of quality furniture) and had his own workshop busily employing several men. As the workshop grew and over the years many of the craftsmen have taken their skills and branched out and adopted a trademark of their own, a fox, a lizard, a fish, a rabbit to name but a few, and whilst some have closely stuck to the Mouseman designs others have taken the style and adapted it. Other craftsmen, unconnected to the Mouseman workshop, have also chosen the classic Yorkshire Oak style as their own. Typical Yorkshire school items are in English Oak, with traditional pegged joints and adzed surfaces.