Gordon Russell Furniture

 

Sir Gordon Russell Born 1892 - 1980

He was nine years old when his family moved to Repton and then, in 1904, to the Cotswold village of Broadway, Worcestershire where his father turned the Lygon Arms into a country house hotel. His attendance at Chipping Campden school meant that Russell saw the vernacular traditions of local craftsmanship and it also brought him into direct contact with Ernest Gimson and the Guild of Handicraft.