Lot 283
GORDON RUSSELL (1892-1980) FOR RUSSELL & SONS BROADWAY
STOOL, CIRCA 1919
Auction: Day Two: 22 April 2021 | From 11:00
£325
Description
oak, bears embossed metal label, RUSSELL AND SONS BROADWAY WORCESTERSHIRE, bears paper label GR EXHIBITION 1919 30-32 ONE OF THREE STOOLS LENT BY LADY RUSSELL, DATED 1919.
Dimensions
37.5cm square, 32cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Sir Gordon and Lady Russell, and by descent
with David Pickup
Private collection
Note: This early example of Russell furniture shows the designers familiarity with seventeenth-century joint stools of a type that he probably restored for his father’s hotel, the Lygon Arms.