Report by Terence Ryle
DESIGNATED a Special Christmas Sale, the December 20 event at the Cotswold Auction Company (20% buyer’s premium) included material for all seasons by men who made the word Cotswolds synonymous with Arts & Crafts furniture.
Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley, who set up the Sapperton workshop in 1893, their associate Peter Waals and Sidney’s son Edward were all represented in pieces from the collection of their brewer friend, Arthur Mitchell.