Harris Lebus

Harris Lebus was a furniture manufacturer and wholesaler based in the East End of London in Tabernacle Street with a factory in Ferry Lane, Tottenham.

[3] During the period of its finest output in the early 1900s, the style of furniture is closely associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, Mainly built of oak and characterised by overhanging cornices, inset door panels and square to turned legs with pad feet in the manner of William Birch of High Wycombe.

Also at this time, small numbers of high quality mahogany, satinwood or walnut bedroom suites in the Sheraton style were made [6][7][8][9] The drawers of Harris Lebus furniture such as chests, wardrobes and roll-top desks made during this period, can be identified by the H.L.L (stands for Harris Lebus, London) on the face plates of the brass locks.

[13] Also in 1904, the firm took out a patent relating to the construction of drawer sides (a framed panel, rather than solid wood), to reduce warping and subsequent sticking.

[3] Following the war the firm became part of the government scheme to produce utility furniture bearing the CC41 mark and were central in providing cheaper manufacturing techniques to provide the country with lower cost furniture with which they could rebuild their homes,[20] and in fact their design team invented and patented the technique of facing man-made boards with other woods.

The company also devised and perfected the means of assembling furniture from preformed sections and completing the construction by curing resin glue lines, utilising 'Radio Frequency' electricity, or 'R.F.'