Sir Ambrose Heal and the Heal Cabinet Factory, 1897-1939
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Sir Ambrose Heal and the Heal Cabinet Factory, 1897-1939
Classmark: Bedford Collection C007
Creator(s): Heal, Oliver S
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Related people: Heal, Ambrose, 1872-1959; Heal, Ambrose, 1872-1959; Heal, Ambrose 1872-1959
Publisher: Oblong
Publication city: Wetherby
Date(s): 2014
Language: English
Size and medium: 312 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731853
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019948696405181
Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-307) and index.
Part one. Ambrose Heal -- the man -- Part two. Retail is detail -- Part three. The cabinet factory.
Sir Ambrose Heal designer, manufacturer, and retailer of furniture was an important figure in design developments in early twentieth-century Britain. This book, which records his furniture designs and also puts them into the larger retail context, is the first compre - hensive review of his career. It reveals the multiple threads of creativity and craftsmanship, culture and commerce, ethics and enterprise, which he was able to weave into a successful business. The first part of the book is biographical, the second covers the detail of retail, and the third records the output of Heal s own Cabinet Factory. Inspired by the likes of John Ruskin and William Morris, Ambrose Heal transformed the family furnishing business, Heal s of Tottenham Court Road, London, to provide a broad middle-class public with distinctive, well-designed, well-made furniture and furnishings. As a business leader Heal was a benign dictator yet he commanded fierce loyalty from his staff who were represented throu
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection C007: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FEG/207.
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