The Present State of Old English Furniture.

Robert Wemyss Symonds (1889-1958), trained as an architect and consequetnly was, for a while, in partnership with Robert Lutyens, son of Sir Edwin Lutyens, before becoming the pre-eminent 20th century scholar and authority on English Furniture. Symonds was also a collector and designer of furniture, as well as an extensive writer on the subject.