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THE MILLINERY WORKS GALLERY
AMBROSE HEAL AND THE
ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT
A special selling event at the Tottenham Court Road store to celebrate the unique contribution of Sir Ambrose Heal to the Arts & Crafts Movement Saturday 26 February through to June 2005
Bringing Ambrose Home
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"have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
William Morris
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"Heal was instrumental in passing the Morris legacy on into Twentieth century manufactured design"
Jeremy Cooper Victorian & Edwardian Interiors
Item 1.
A mahogany 'Fine Feathers/Ruskin' wardrobe comprising a central section with cupboard above seven drawers flanked by two hanging cupboards and decorated with pewter and harewood inlay, with motto "Fine Feathers Make Fine Birds" circa 1897. Illustrated top of page
An en suite mahogany 'Fine Feathers' three drawer dressing table, with pewter handles below swing mirror, pewter and harewood peacocks inlaid into uprights and chamfered columns supporting silver plated candle holders, with motto "If This Be Vanity, Who’d Be Wise?" circa 1897 Illustrated above
A en suite ‘Fine Feathers’ mahogany rush-seated bedside chair with heart cut-out motif, circa 1897. Illustrated above
All designed by Ambrose Heal and made by Heals & Son.
All Illustrated‘ A Note on Simplicity of Design in furniture for Bedrooms’ by Gleeson White.
'Simplicity has been said to be the final refuge of the complex. Nor is the statement really a paradox. To be simple in decoration is always to be good in taste, and as a rule, to fulfill the intended purpose more satisfactorily'