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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Ambrose Heal was an English furniture designer, and businessman in the first half of the 20th century. Heal was the great-grandson of John Harris Heal, the founder of the Heals furniture manufacturing and retail business. He attended Marlborough College and the Slade School of Fine Art before a two year apprenticeship to a cabinetmaker in Warwick and six months working for Graham and Biddle, furnishers, of Oxford Street. In 1893 he joined Heal & Son, working in the bedding factory, but in the mid-1890s he began designing simple, sturdy furniture, often in plain oak. Although initially his designs were not popular with sales staff, who called them prison furniture, they found a place at exhibitions of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society and soon became so successful that prejudices were overcome

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