BARRY PARKER (1867-1947) AND SIR RAYMOND UNWIN (1863-1940)
ARTS & CRAFTS BOOKCASE, CIRCA 1904
£1,500
Auction: Day One: 20 April 2022 | From 11:00
Description
pine, stained and leaded glass, glass, pewter
Dimensions
228.5cm wide, 202cm high, 38cm deep
Provenance
Provenance: The Mount, Motherwell
Footnote
Note: The Mount was commissioned from Barry Parker & Raymond Unwin by Dr Robert Jack and completed in 1904. Parker and Unwin went into partnership as architects in 1896. They collaborated on architectural writing including The Art of Building a Home (1901), applying the Arts and Crafts Movement to working-class housing and went on to design a model village for Joseph and Benjamin Rowntree in 1902. From 1903 they were responsible for the creation of Letchworth Garden City, and Hampstead Garden Suburb (with Sir Edwin Lutyens). Another notable commission was Goodfellow House, later named Chetwynd House, home of the pottery manufacturer Colley Shorter, whose second wife was the ceramics designer Clarice Cliff. A wardrobe designed by Parker & Unwin for the house was sold in these rooms, 24th April 2004, lot 312.