An elegant Cotswolds School oak bookcase with open shelves attributed to Sidney Barnsley.

The Cotswold school was formed as a reaction to an increasingly unskilled workforce and overly mass-produced furniture in the late C19th. Its association to the Arts and Crafts movement and to John Ruskin and William Morris, amongst others, continued with the Cotswold School, notably Ernest Gimson and the Barnsley brothers.

H 2220, W 1650, D 410 mm