£500
Auction: Design Since 1860
elm
Provenance: From The Millinery Works Collection.
Note: Robin Nance was apprenticed to Arthur Romney Green, returning to his home town of St Ives, Cornwall, and opening his own workshop in 1933. This was suspended during the war, re-opening in 1946 with his brother, Dicon, as a gallery/workshop on the quayside. Dicon designed a pottery wheel for Bernard Leach and the furniture workshop made picture frames for Ben Nicholson and other St Ives artists and sculpture bases for Barbara Hepworth. Nance Furniture was shown at the Red Rose Guild of Craftsmen in 1950 and at the Festival of Britain in 1951 and sold through The Craft Centre in The Haymarket. The business was closed in 1972.