Cabinets

Whilst the workshops were engaged in making small batches of domestic furniture, Gordon Russell also designed a remarkable group of cabinets - exhibition pieces, either commissioned or speculative. The designs owed much to Ernest Gimson and the work of the Barnsleys. The cabinets, made in a variety of timbers, inlays and fine metalwork, were essentially handmade to the very highest standards of cabinet making. Two outstanding cabinets include the Paris Cabinet displayed at the Paris Exhibition in 1925, where it was awarded a gold medal. It was made in walnut inlaid with ebony, yewtree, boxwood and laburnum. The Print Cabinet, 1925, in the collection of the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, was made in bog oak, burr elm and laburnum.