Ride, W. W.

Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire; cabinet maker (fl.1906)

A member of the Guild of Handicraft who probably was recruited in London but worked with the Guild in Chipping Campden. With J. W. Pyment, Ride made a writing cabinet on a stand, like a Spanish vargueno, with a plain exterior and rich interior fitted with leather tooled with gold foil, price £65. This was exhibited at the 1906 Arts & Crafts Exhibition (cat. no. 258). It was unsold and became part of the furnishings at Ashbee’s house, 37 Cheyne Walk, London. Now in the V&A Collection (illustrated below);

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Cabinet on stand by C.R. Ashbee. Made of walnut and silver-grey wood. Leatherwork by Statia Power, blind-stamped and tooled in gold. Wrought iron fittings, 1903 [CIRC.234:1, 2-1960]. © V&A Museum, London

Sources: Lambourne, Utopian Craftsmen, (1980); Crawford, C R Ashbee. Architect, Designer & Romantic Socialist (1985);Carruthers and Greensted, Good Citizen’s Furniture, The Arts & Crafts Collections at Cheltenham (1994); Greensted, ‘The Arts and Crafts Movement collections at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum’, The Decorative Arts Society 1850-1932 (2000); Greensted and Wilson, Originality and Initiative.  The Arts and Crafts archives at Cheltenham (2003); Arts & Crafts Exhibition catalogues, 1888-1916.