A Beautiful Brass Swan Neck Table Lamp
Designed and made by William Arthur Smith Benson
With a lovely Art Nouveau gold iridescent shade
Attributed to Quezal.
In excellent original condition with makers stamp.
This is one of the most elegant and sought after table lamps by Benson

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William Arthur Smith Benson, "English architect and designer" whose furniture employed inlays of rosewood, tulip, and ebony, opened a "workshop for the production of turned metalwork on a commercial scale" in 1880 with encouragement from his friend William Morris for whose firm he had designed metalwork and furniture.
He opened a factory three years later and then a showroom in Bond Street (not far from the Fine Art Society) in 1887.
A founding member of the Art Workers Guild (1887), he wrote "Elements of handicraft and Design" (1893).
He directed the Morris and Co. furniture department from 1896.
Unlike others in the Arts and Crafts movement, he created designs "intended for machine mass production.
Benson not only designed furniture and metalwork for Morris and Co, he also "collaborated with J. H. Dearle on wall-paper designs" for the firm in the 1890s

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