THOMAS GNOMEMAN WHITTAKER 5ft ADZED OAK DINING SUITE

A Gnomeman Dining Suite with a fully Adzed 5ft Oak Dining Table with two matching Adzed Oak Benches all with carved gnome signatures

The Oak Dining Table with a 3 plank adzed and dowelled top raised on a trestle base with large carved waisted end supports recessed carved gnome signature to one end, the table top has a unique facility enabling the top to be lifted off for easy moving

Excellent patina and fully adzed to all visible areas

Height: 74 cm        Width: 75 cm        Length: 152.5 cm

The benches with good colour constructed with solid one piece backs and seats and fully adzed,  each with  a carved Gnome signature to one end

Height: 77 cm       Width: 45 cm         Length: 152.5cm

Circa: 1960

Price: SOLD

Reference 3784

Biography: Tom Whittaker circa 1910-1991 lived and worked in Littlebeck near Whitby after studying in his native York and with craftsmen in Germany and Switzerland.
He used only English Oak and his trademarkwas to carve a little woodland gnome into each and every piece of furniture he made. Legend has it that a gnome is born every time an acorn sprouts and then that gnome will guard that tree throughout its life
Tom Whittaker the Gnome Man of Littlebecks work is highly recognised his Vulnerata statue of the wounded Virgin commissioned by the monastery of Valladolid replaced a figure defaced by Elizabethan sailors during a piratical raid is one of his noted works.
Tom Whittaker died in 1991 his business ended and his workshop was converted into a private house
Of all the woodcarvers and furniture makers of North Yorkshire the Gnomeman’s work is highly sought after.
See also http://www.britishpathe.com/video/gnome-man/