Lot 477
BETTY JOEL (1894-1985) FOR TOKEN FURNITURE
ANDOMAN PADOUK WOOD CHEST OF DRAWERS, DATED 1926
Auction: 3 April 2019 at 12:00 BST
Description
the top with inset glass preserve above two short over three graduated drawers raised on tapering legs, bears hand-written and printed maker's label to rear of top drawer TOKEN HANDMADE FURNITURE/ REGD. TRADE MARK/ BETTY JOEL/ C.W. KEMP/W. R. HAMILTON/ 1926
Dimensions
75.5cm wide, 97cm high, 45.5cm deep
Footnote
Provenance: Purchased directly from Betty Joel in 1926
By family descent
Note: The original receipt for this piece, dated October 14th 1926, states that 10% was added to the price for making up the pieces in 'Andoman Padouk'. Betty Joel set up her furniture making business in 1918 with her husband David Joel and initially has their workshops in factory at Hayling Island where these pieces would have been made. The firm rented a showroom at 177 Sloane Street in London. Such was the popularity of Joel’s designs that by 1929 the factory moved to bigger premises at Portsmouth. Many of England’s social and corporate elite commissioned her to design interiors and furniture for their homes and offices.