sentences:  In 1925 Russell won a Gold Medal at the Paris Exhibition with a cabinet, with internal drawers lined with boxwood, ebony and laburnum, and valued in 2013 at £50,000 to £60,000.He designed the "Stow" range of furniture in the mid 1920s.During World War II he was instrumental in developing utility furniture as Chairman of the government's Utility Furniture Design Panel.