About Puritan Values
Puritan Values is one of the United Kingdom’s leading specialists in the Arts and Crafts Movement, Aesthetic Movement, Anglo Japanese design, Gothic Revival and British decorative arts from circa 1850 to circa 1950. With over 40 years of research, restoration expertise and museum collaborations, we supply collectors, designers, institutions and museums worldwide.
Featured piece, Thomas Jeckyll attributed, made by William Walker & Sons, a rare Anglo Japanese octagonal walnut partner desk with fretted gallery and trammelled base, c.1875. View this desk. Featured piece, C. F. A. Voysey (1857–1941), a rare Arts and Crafts oak mantel clock with pewter-inlaid dial reading "Tempus Fugit", one of only two oak examples known, c.1902. View this clock. Featured piece, Stephen Webb for Collinson & Lock, an exhibition-quality Renaissance Revival inlaid corner cabinet on open stand, illustrated in the Collinson & Lock catalogue, c.1870. View this cabinet. Featured piece, Dr Christopher Dresser for the Art Furniture Alliance, a rare and important Aesthetic Movement armchair with angular frame and articulated back supports, c.1880. View this armchair. Featured piece, Coalbrookdale Iron Works, the Lily Pad pair of Aesthetic Movement cast iron garden benches, signed and with registered design lozenge, c.1875. View these benches. Featured piece, C. R. Ashbee for the Guild of Handicraft, an Arts and Crafts copper chalice with semi-precious cabochon and hammered bowl, c.1900. View this chalice. Featured piece, Thomas Jeckyll for Barnard Bishop & Barnard, an Anglo-Japanese brass planter designed to accompany his cast-iron fireplace grates, registered 1876. View this planter. Featured piece, Dr Christopher Dresser, an important Aesthetic Movement marble fire surround with inlaid bulrush motifs, c.1874. View this fire surround. Featured piece, W. A. S. Benson, an Arts and Crafts copper and brass five-branch chandelier with Vaseline glass shades and original fittings, c.1900. View this chandelier.
We specialise in
The Arts and Crafts Movement, Anglo Japanese Movement, Aesthetic Movement, Gothic Revival, British and European Art Nouveau, Scandinavian modern, architectural antiques and important works of art.
Our showrooms are stocked with art furniture, period lighting (including architectural), decorative items and significant pieces for period interiors and gardens.
We work with museums, interior designers, architects and private collectors worldwide, including the film and television industry. For over 20 years we have supplied Liberty and Co of Regent Street with original Liberty pieces, including 18 of their annual exhibitions.
Some of the museums we have supplied include:
Blackwell House (National Trust)
The National Trust – William Morris museums and Sutton Hoo
The Victoria and Albert Museum
The Bröhan Museum, Berlin
Museum Hofmobiliendepot, Vienna
Le Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Notable private collectors we have supplied:
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sir Frank Lowe
Andy Murray
John Paul Getty
With 40 years' experience, we sympathetically restore furniture with expert knowledge of period woodwork, tools and finishes.
“There is nothing like taking a piece of furniture that is worn out and tired from a long life of everyday use and sympathetically restoring it ready for another long life of loving use. When the final wax has been polished off, the proud satisfaction it gives me makes the whole process a wonderfully fulfilling endeavour.”