Designer Biography

Walter Frederick Cave

Born: 1863

Died: 1939

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Cave was educated at Eton before studying art at the Royal Academy Schools and then architecture under Arthur W. Blomfield. In 1889 he set up a practice in London and joined the Art Workers' Guild. Maple & Co. exhibited a piano designed by Cave for Bechstein at the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, of which Cave was later president, in 1893, and in subsequent exhibitions he showed chairs, metalwork and textiles, often executed by his wife. He took over one of Voysey's commissions and other Voyseyesque houses followed, but his later style was closer to the French Renaissance manner of Reginald Blomfield, nephew of his former master.