Lot 354
SIR ROBERT LORIMER
SET OF FOUR OAK DINING CHAIRS, CIRCA 1910
Auction: 10 November 2010 at 11:00 GMT
Description
made by Whytock & Reid, Edinburgh, each of Windsor form, with curved top rail above spindle-filled back and moulded open arms raised above moulded dished seat on turned tapering legs (4)
Dimensions
61cm wide, 71cm high, 40cm deep
Footnote
Provenance: Sir James Morton, Teuthur, Carlisle and by family descent
Literature: Morton, J., 'Three Generations in a Family Textile Firm', London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971, pages 312-3
Hussey, Christopher 'The Works of Sir Robert Lorimer', pub. 1931, plate 234B shows a chair with similar moulded arms
Note: By 1905 Alexander Morton & Co had expanded their considerable textile empire to Carlisle, setting up Morton Sundour Fabrics in that year in the town. For James Morton Carlisle quickly became the centre of operations and in 1923 he commissioned Sir Robert Lorimer to design and furnish a third house where he could stay mid week from Tuesday to Thursday, hence the name of the house, on Lorimers suggestion, 'Tuethur'. The interiors of the huse were panelled in untreated gean or wild cherry wood and all the furniture in the house was designed by Lorimer and made by Whytock and Reid of Edinburgh.