Cabinet

Maurice Adams saw himself as the natural successor to the great furniture makers of the eighteenth century and had ambitious plans for 20th-century British interior design, including a proposed 'Maurice Adams house', in which the architecture and interior furnishings would be designed entirely by Adams throughout, in a streamlined, Georgian style. All Adams's furniture was made by hand in Gloucester and displayed in Adams's showroom in Portman Square, London. This little side cabinet, designed for the sitting room, was part of Adams's 'Grosvenor' range and could be made to fit any specification.The interior was fitted with a cupboard which Adams suggested might store books or music. 'Some fo

Cabinet · Gloucester · 1928. Laminated gaboon, black walnut and probably mahogany, with walnut veneer. By Adams, Maurice S. R.. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.