Stanley Webb Davies

Stanley Webb Davies (1894–1978) was one of Great Britain's premier makers of Arts and Crafts furniture from his workshop in Windermere in the Lake District.

A 2016 biography, Stanley Webb Davies; Family, Friends and Furniture tells of his education at Quaker Schools Sidcot and Bootham before going on to Oxford.

After the war he turned his back on the family's thriving textile interests and spent two years learning his craft with Arthur Romney Green in Christchurch on the South Coast.

Like all of the artisans in the Arts and Crafts movement, such as William Morris and John Ruskin, his work was a direct backlash to the mechanisation and automation of Victorian times.

In 1931 Stanley's older brother Percy, a prominent Quaker and Socialist, invited Mohandas K. Gandhi, the Mahatma (Great Soul), to Darwen to witness at first hand the plight of Lancashire textile workers who had been badly hit by the Indian boycott of British goods.

Today the work of Stanley Davies and his small team of assistants grace museums and grand houses, churches and auction centres, galleries and municipal buildings throughout the country.