Peter Waals Drawings c1935

Barnsley, Edward, 1900-1987

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East Midlands Training College

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Waals, Peter

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Peter Waals (1870-1937) was born in The Hague in Holland and learned his craft as a cabinet maker there and in Brussels, Berlin and Vienna. Coming to London in 1900, he met Ernest Gimson, the architect and designer and a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Waals became Gimson's foreman at his workshops in Daneway in Gloucestershire and after Gimson's death in 1919 set up his own workshops at Chalford. Here he continued the Cotswold Tradition of furniture design and production begun b...

Gimson, Ernest, 1864-1919

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Loughborough College

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The origins of the present Loughborough University lie in Loughborough College which began life as the Loughborough Technical Institute. This was set up by Leicestershire County Council in 1909 to provide local facilities for further education. Courses in science, art and technology were taught in day and evening classes. During the First World War, the Technical Institute, on the initiative of an energetic new Principal, Herbert Schofield, became an 'Instructional Factory' for the Ministry of M...

Waals, Peter

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Peter Waals (1870-1937) was born in The Hague in Holland and learned his craft as a cabinet maker there and in Brussels, Berlin and Vienna. Coming to London in 1900, he met Ernest Gimson, the architect and designer and a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Waals became Gimson's foreman at his workshops in Daneway in Gloucestershire and after Gimson's death in 1919 set up his own workshops at Chalford. Here he continued the Cotswold Tradition of furniture design and production begun b...