page_title: Peter Waals
section_title: Workshop owner and designer
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Waals / Arts and Crafts / Workshop owner and designer
caption_attribution_description: English: Christchurch, Chalford, England.
context_page_description: Peter Waals, born Pieter van der Waals, was a Dutch cabinet maker associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.
context_section_description: After Gimson's death in 1919 Peter Waals continued to run the Daneway Workshops. By  the end of the year he was canvassing potential clients in his own name on Daneway headed paper  The following year he was able to set up his own workshop at  Halliday's Mill with the help of Alfred James, at  the foot of Cowcombe Hill in the nearby village of Chalford, employing many of Gimson's skilled craftsmen  including designer Norman Jewson. 
  Chalford was a more practical location for a workshop than Sapperton, since it was close to a railway station and had more accessible roads. 
    
  Many examples of his own work, and that produced by other craftsmen in his workshop, can be found in Christ Church there.   
  They include the organ gallery, the chancel screen and the lectern, all of which were designed by Jewson.  The cover of the font, which lifts and descends by means of a counterbalance in the roof space, was carved by one of Waals' craftsmen, Owen Scrubey.
  From 1920 to 1937 the workshop produced high quality furniture to Waals' and Jewson's designs and also trained apprentices in the Arts and Crafts tradition. 
  An apprenticeship at the Chalford workshop with Waals lasted from five to six years, and apprentices were on trial for three months without pay. 
  One such apprentice was New Age thinker Sir George Trevelyan who died in the bed he made there. 
  Furniture produced during this period now features in exhibitions and catalogues of leading art houses and auction rooms.
caption: Christ Church, Chalford
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