Thomas Chippendale, the younger Thomas Chippendale, the younger Thomas Chippendale, the younger (1749–1822) was an English artist, furniture maker and designer, and the eldest of Thomas Chippendale's eleven children. He was devoted to his father and worked with Chippendale Senior until the later died in 1779. Thereafter he took over his father's business until Thomas Chippendale Jnr was obliged to close the doors on the family business. The Company, listed in Sheraton's "The Cabinet Directory" of 1803, went bankrupt in 1804 but was later re-established. Thomas Chippendale was also a member of the Society of Arts and exhibited his paintings at the Royal Academy
James Moore (furniture designer) gesso furniture by Moore can be linked to surviving bills receipted by James Moore and John Belchier, 1722-26. The succeeding royal cabinet-maker, Benjamin Goodison, trained in Moore's workshop. James Moore (furniture designer) ïJames Moore (c. 1670 - October 1726) was an 18th-century cabinet maker in London who worked for George I. He was in partnership with John Gumley from 1714. As royal cabinet-maker he supplied walnut and mahogany furniture for the royal household, the royal yacht, and the king's servants and mistresses, as well as the rich gilt gesso furniture for which he is best known but which constituted a