Antiques and Interiors inc English Art Deco.

Description

A set of Cotswold School fire-irons with decorative solid brass handles and decoratively twisted wrought iron shafts. They were made around 1900 to 1910 and are attributed to Bill Thornton and Charlie Downer. They have been well used but they are in very good condition.
Bill Thornton and Charley Downer joined the Guild of Handicraft in East London as two young blacksmiths. They came to Camden in 1902 and when the Guild went into liquidation in 1908 they stayed on, making ornamental ironwork of high quality for architects and for direct sale, until just after the Second World War. They were famously grumpy towards each other. Thornton died in 1948 and Downer in 1961.