In January of 1903 Gustav Stickley visited London with a view to returning to America and holding an Arts & Crafts exhibition. He flew on to London from Paris where he had visited Siegfried Bing and Rene Lalique. His aim was to travel to Europe to find objects to include in his planned exhibition.
It is highly likely that Stickley attended the seventh exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society which opened in London on 16th of January 1903. One of the exhibitors at the exhibition was Faulkner Bronze & Co who had a number of items including lights designed by Anne Stubbs. It is here that Stickley most likely bought the four lights that we know he purchased from Faulkner Bronze & Co on this trip.
Importantly, Stickley also visited a retailer, Art Fittings Ltd, in Westminster in London. Not much is known about Art Fittings Ltd although they advertised widely in The Studio magazine in the early 1900’s.