Born in the Hague in 1870, Peter Waals learned cabinet making in Brussels, Berlin and Venice before arriving in London in 1900. The furniture historian John Gloag described Waals in later life as ‘an enormous bulky great Dutchman with shoulders like a gorilla and a deep voice. He loved to contradict people, which he did all the time’. From about 1902 he worked with Ernest Gimson and Ernest Barnsley in building up the team of craftsmen in the workshops at the Fleece Hotel, Cirencester, and then at Daneway, near Sapperton, Gloucestershire. He became foreman of the workshops from 15 March 1905. Peter Waals studied under Ernest Gimson eventually owning his own workshop and latter becoming a consultant at Loughborough College shortly before his death in 1937Ascribed to the Loughborough College workshops under the tutelage of Peter Waal or Edward Barnsley who were both the appointed consultant cabinet makers who introduced and developed the ''Cotswold tradition'' there.Notabl...