14/06/2026
New arrival: A German Worpsweder bench circa 1910 attributed to Heinrich Vogeler.
These chairs were originally traditional Lower Saxony farmhouse furniture. However, around 1900, the artists of the Worpswede Colony fell in love with their simple, honest craftsmanship and artists like Heinrich Vogeler began adapting, designing, and popularising them nationally.
A similar to story how the pioneers of the Cotswold school movement and William Morris took the best bits of Sussex furniture and created their versions that we know and love in the UK.
What William Morris and the Cotswold School did for English design, Heinrich Vogeler and the Worpswede workshops did for German design. Both movements shared an identical philosophy: a deep-seated panic over industrial mass-production, a romantic obsession with pre-industrial rural life, and a desire to elevate ordinary vernacular furniture into high art.
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