Matthias Lock Ornaments"; "A New Book of Ornaments" (1768); "A New Book of Pier Frames, Ovals, Girandoles, Tables, etc". (1769); and "A New Book of Foliage" (1769). Matthias Lock Matthias Lock was an English 18th century furniture designer and cabinet-maker. The dates of his birth and death are unknown; but he was a disciple of Thomas Chippendale, and subsequently of the Adams, and was possibly in partnership with Henry Copeland. During the greater part of his life he belonged to that flamboyant school which derived its inspiration from Louis XV models; but when he fell under the influence of Robert Adam he
Gordon Russell (designer) by C. R. Ashbee from east London to Chipping Campden. Following service as an officer in World War I, for which he was awarded the Military Cross in 1918, he became a furniture maker and designer. In 1925 Russell won a Gold Medal at the Paris Exhibition with a cabinet, with internal drawers lined with boxwood, ebony and laburnum, and valued in 2013 at £50,000 to £60,000. He designed the "Stow" range of furniture in the mid 1920s. During World War II he was instrumental in developing utility furniture as Chairman of the government's Utility Furniture Design Panel. In 1943