Cotswold Chairs Collection

Most of these chairs illustrated were designed by Ernest Gimson who revived this old village craft of making ash chairs with rush seats during the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Philip Clissett had been making chairs at Bosbury in Herefordshire since 1838 and Gimson took lessons from him in 1890. After establishing his workshops at Daneway in Gloucestershire he encouraged Edward Gardiner, a local young man to take up chair making.

Gimson's aim was to prove that well designed and skillfully executed chairs can be made by trained village craftsmen and be comparable with the best work of the old time chair makers.

Also the ash pole so plentifully found in our woodlands together with the rushes from the river can be wrought into an article both useful and lasting.

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