Charles Spooner, architect and designer, was well known in the Arts and Crafts Movement in the twenty or so years spanning the turn of the Century. He became a member of the Art Worker's Guild in 1887 and then secretary of the Wood Handicrafts Society, under whose name both he and Voysey exhibited at the Art and Crafts Exhibition Society in 1893. He ran his own workshop in Hammersmith and in 1900, took up a teaching post at the Central School of Art and Crafts. Writing in 1908 in his work Craftsmanship in competitive Industry, Ashbee named him with Lethaby, Gimson and Barnsley as one of the four people 'with whom the Arts and Crafts Movement is identified'.

Cf. Jeremy Cooper, Victoria and Edwardian Furniture and Interiors, London 1987, p.183