This beautiful rare English Coalbrookdale cast iron umbrella / cane stand is a rare find from circa 1904, Victorian era. Almost certainly designed by the renowned designer Christopher Dresser. This piece features a smooth green painted finish and has two compartments for storing your umbrellas and canes.

Christopher Dresser is a Scottish designer, among the greatest interpreters of the Arts and Crafts aesthetic movement, design theorist, and among the first to practice as a designer in a modern and independent.

Dresser is considered a father of design for both its theoretical and practical work, and has also been described as the first designer ever, having done the design work independently and with existing quality models and objects designed for mass production mass.

His style forerunner of the times has influenced generations of designers and proves its value resulting in some of its metal objects of daily use remains in production today.