Chuck, Ernest (1887-1959)
Chuck, Ernest
Barley, Hertfordshire; cabinet maker (fl.1887-1959)
Ernest was one of three sons of Albert Chuck, a partner in Albert Chuck & Co., a firm of builders, carpenters and undertakers. Ernest was a carpenter and joiner before becoming a cabinet maker. In 1916 he married and had a son, who also became a craftsman. By the 1920s Chuck was an established maker of furniture mainly in oak at his workshop in Barley. One of his principal clients was a neighbour, Redcliffe Salaman, whose sons attended Bedales school in Petersfield, Hampshire, and it was through this family that Chuck probably met Sidney Barnsley c.1923. Barnsley subsequently offered Chuck a job, which he declined but he was allowed to use Barnsley’s designs, as shown in elements of an oak dining table, a bookcase and low round table of oak made about 1932 (illus. Moss, 1996, pp. 79 & 80).
Source: Moss, ‘Ernest Chuck 1887-1959 a rural cabinetmaker’, The Decorative Arts Society 1850 to the Present (1996).
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