THOMAS GNOMEMAN WHITTAKER ADZED OAK SETTLE

A rare Thomas Gnomeman Whittaker adzed oak settle with two shaped ends one with a carved gnome signature, the whole piece with superb colour and fully adzed to all visible areas

Excellent condition

Circa 1950

Width: 138 cm Depth: 42 cm Height: 138 cm

SOLD

Biography: Tom Whittaker (1910-1991) lived and worked in Littlebeck near Whitby after studying in his native York and with craftsmen in Germany and Switzerland.
Tom used only English Oak and he developed a trademark to carve a little woodland gnome into each and every piece of furniture he ever made. Legend has it, after every gnome is born, an acorn sprouts and then that gnome will guard that tree throughout its life… an interesting backstory to his motif. Tom Whittaker’s work is highly recognised, for example his Vulnerata statue of the wounded Virgin was commissioned by the monastery of Valladolid replacing a figure defaced by Elizabethan sailors during a piratical raid.
Tom Whittaker died in 1991, when hhis business ended and his workshop was converted into a private house.
Of all the Woodcarvers and furniture makers of North Yorkshire, the Gnome man’s work is highly sought after!