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CFA Voysey original commissioned music cabinet

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Code: 10086

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Price bracket £**,***

An extremely rare and important Arts & Crafts two door music cabinet on stand, designed by, arguably,
the greatest British Arts & Crafts architect-designer,
Charles Francis Annesley (CFA) Voysey , (1857-1941);
complete with it’s original CFA Voysey designed key.

h: 51” d: 21.5” w: 50.5”

This is a one-off commissioned piece, a music cabinet, for his client
JW Gwyn Esq , of 8 Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead, London NW3, c1910.
The original plan drawing on linen, signed and dated July 14^th 1910,
is held in the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects,
now held at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London; RIBA catalogue ref: SB114/VOY[200](1-2)

Door furniture by Bainbridge Reynolds as specified in the original drawing.
Shelved interior and fully boarded finished (mahogany) back; the whole on typical chamfered octagonal legs;
a keynote quality detail seen in many of Voysey’s designs.

PREVIOUSLY EXHIBITED AT BLACKWELL, THE FAMOUS ARTS & CRAFTS HOUSE IN THE LAKE DISTRICT.
Further references in Voysey’s “ White Book”, “ Black Book” and his address book,
all held at the RIBA/V&A Museum in London , archives.

Commissioned pieces are the scarcest of items designed by CFA Voysey, and rarely, if ever, come on to the open market.