Code: 11467
Excellent quality Arts & Crafts Cotswold School oak dressing table (with fixed mirror) and matching stool;
by Hugh Birkett (1919-2002), one of the master craftsmen of the Cotswold School.
Incised initial HB and date of 1952 to rear of mirror.
Hugh Birkett was a furniture maker and master craftsman who was influenced by the work of Ernest Gimson, Romney Green and Edward Barnsley.
Born in Solihull, he later set up his own workshop in 1949 in Lapworth, Warwickshire and then later moved to Moreton-in-Marsh in 1966,
where he continued to make furniture in the the tradition of the Cotswolds Arts & Crafts.
He was also a master bookbinder.
Approx 60" high overall, 27" high to table top and mirror an additional 33"; 39" wide and 18" depth.
Stool approx 17" wide by 12" depth by 17" overall height
