Description: Constructed entirely of oak, all the four boards making up the top are secured breadboard style. Top has hand scrubbed plane marks and tongue and groove joints. The legs and apron are beaded on one edge, with mortise and tenon joinery using square pegs to fasten together.

History: The Arts and Crafts movement emerged during the late Victorian period in England, the most industrialized country in the world at that time. Anxieties about industrial life fueled a positive revaluation of handcraftsmanship and precapitalist forms of culture and society. Arts and Crafts designers sought to improve standards of decorative design, believed to have been debased by mechanization, and to create environments in which beautiful and fine workmanship governed. The Arts and Crafts movement did not promote a particular style, but it did advocate reform as part of its philosophy and instigated a critique of industrial labor; as modern machines replaced workers, Arts and Crafts proponents called for an end to the division of labor and advanced the designer as craftsman. The American Arts and Crafts movement was inextricably linked to the British movement and closely aligned with the work of William Morris and the second generation of architect-designers, including Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942), who toured the United States, and Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857–1941), whose work was known through important publications such as The Studio.

Provenance: Arthur J Connolly, Naples FL

Dimensions: Weight (Pounds & Ounces) = 35 | Height(in) = 31 | Width(in) = 39 | Depth(in) = 36

Size of Artwork(in): 31 x 39 x 36"

Artist Name: Unknown

Medium: Solid oak.

Circa: Circa 1910.

Some light scratches and dings.