Furniture & woodwork   Ideas about truth to materials and open construction work were important to Ernest Gimson and many Arts and Crafts designer-makers. This coffer was designed by Gimson and made in the Daneway workshop in about 1910. Quartered planks of oak were used to achieve the decorative grain effects on the dowelled lid. Note the way the coffer is joined with cogged dovetails at the corners. Double dovetails or butterfly joints join the planks on the two ends.     Decoration on Arts & Crafts furniture was often based on carpentry techniques: gouged work, chamfering and chip-carving. This dining table in oak was designed and made by Sidney Barnsley in 1923-4. The chamfered design of the stretcher is based on the hay rake. It has been made in three pieces, shaped using a draw knife and joined with dowels and tenons. There are lines of lozenge-shaped chip-carved decoration round the edge of the table top and down its legs.     Many Arts & Crafts designers produced rush-seated chairs. This elegant version was designed by C F A Voysey in 1898 and made in oak probably by C H B Quennell. Voysey's use of strong vertical lines and heart-shaped cut-outs were much copied.     Furniture & woodwork Silver & metalwork Forged metalwork Jewellery Pottery Glass Stained glass Leatherwork Calligraphy, printing and book binding Plasterwork Embroidery Wallpaper and textiles