Mary Miers, who is a hugely experienced writer on art and architecture, and a former fine arts editor at Country Life, has written an article about the Barnsley Workshop today.
She writes:
It’s difficult to imagine Edward Barnsley in the cosmopolitan milieu of the Treasure House Fair. The Arts-and-Crafts furniture maker would have been astonished to see his workshop’s unpretentious contemporary pieces cutting a dash amidst the stands of Old Masters and antiques, attracting on-the-spot sales in a Chelsea pavilion humming with collectors and connoisseurs. His successor, the designer-craftsman James Ryan, who now runs the company, admits that he was hesitant when . . .
The full article is on the Treasure House Fair website and can be viewed here.