Lot 556
BETTY JOEL (1894-1985) FOR TOKEN FURNITURE
PAIR OF SATIN BIRCH TABLE LAMPS, CIRCA 1926
Auction: 1 April 2020 at 11:00 BST
Description
each with tall tapered columns on a moulded square base
Dimensions
29cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Purchased directly from Betty Joel in 1926
By family descent
Note: The original drawings for these lamps show that were designed with "dome-shaped shades in red silk on square wire frames".
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.