£2,500
The Minoprio Collection: British Design in the Arts & Crafts Tradition | 669
Auction: 11 January 2022 at 14:00 GMT
walnut, with sycamore inlay, the fitted interior with leather skiver
Provenance:
Commissioned from Edward Barnsley by Anthony Minoprio
John Minoprio
Note: This bureau and the preceding lot, a desk chair, was commissioned by Anthony Minoprio for his wife, Catherine. The bureau bears an inscription under interior drawer "Designed for Mrs Anthony Minoprio by Edward Barnsley in 1964 and made in the Froxfield Workshops by assistant George Taylor, Edward Barnsley, April 8th, 1965"