Puritan Values

British Arts & Crafts, Anglo-Japanese, and Aesthetic Movement furniture and decorative arts. A visual archive drawn from the largest Art Furniture collection in the UK. Showrooms in London & Southwold (appointment only).

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Puritan Values

British Arts & Crafts, Anglo-Japanese, and Aesthetic Movement furniture and decorative arts. A visual archive drawn from the largest Art Furniture collection in the UK. Showrooms in London & Southwold (appointment only).

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A monumental Aesthetic Movement cabinet by Collinson & Lock, designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt, c.1871. Built in ebonised wood with the dramatic tiered architecture that defined Collcutt’s exhibition pieces, it carries hand-painted panels of birds and flowers attributed to Charles Fairfax Murray. This form belongs to the small group of cabinets shown at major international exhibitions in the 1870s, including London 1871, Vienna 1873 and Philadelphia 1876, establishing Collcutt’s reputation for theatrical, architectural furniture. It’s a rare survival from the high point of Victorian Japonisme and Aesthetic interiors, where structure, painted ornament and deep black finishes were used to turn furniture into stage-sets for living. Source: puritanvalues.com

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An Art Nouveau four-part folding screen from 1899 by the great Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939).

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William Arthur Smith Benson (1854–1924), architect-turned-metalworker, was a key Arts & Crafts designer known for refined copper and brass lighting and his collaborations with Morris & Co. His work emphasised craftsmanship, clarity, and elegant, functional design. Arts & Crafts copper and brass five-branch chandelier with original ceiling plate, turned support, and five whiplash arms. The circular copper ring has scalloped edges above and below, with scrollwork details supporting the original Vaseline glass shades. c.1900 Source: puritanvalues.com

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Bruce Talbert aesthetic cabinet, c. 1870-1872.

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William Arthur Smith Benson

table lamp

ca. 1900

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Decanter (1901). Silver and glass.

Designed by Charles Robert Ashbee (English, 1863-1942).

Silver made by the Guild of Handicraft Ltd. Glass made by James Powell and Sons, Whitefriars Glassworks.

Image and text information courtesy Art Institute Chicago.

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William Morris (1834-1896） Tree of Life

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Textiles by  Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851 - 1942)

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Art Nouveau drawing room cabinet from 1910 by Shapland & Petter, England.

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An Art Nouveau four-part folding screen from 1899 by the great Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939).

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C.F.A. Voysey, Dulek carpet, ca. 1920. Hand-knotted wool.

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Bruce J. Talbert Sideboard, also known as the Pericles Dressoir, manufactured by Holland & Sons, 1866, at The Met Fifth Avenue

An ambitious example of British craftsmanship, this so-called Pericles dressoir or sideboard was specifically designed by Talbert as the centerpiece for the stand of Holland & Sons at the Paris International Exhibition of 1867. Talbert, known for his work in the reformed Gothic style, included a scene from Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre in the central gable as well as several quotations from this and two other Shakespeare plays, allusions to dining and the grace before a meal. Both the references to Shakespeare as well as the use of oak, a British native wood, are manifestations of immense national pride.