SIR EDWIN LUTYENS (1869-1944)
DOOR FOR LITTLE THAKEHAM, 1902
£4,284
Auction: 11 October 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
oak, polished steel
Dimensions
91cm wide, 199cm high, 2.5cm deep
Provenance
Provenance: Little Thakeham, West Sussex
Little Thakeham (the sale of the contents), Rupert Toovey, 18th October 2000, lot 17.
Private Collection
Footnote
Literature: Stamp G. Edwin Lutyens Country Houses, Aurum Press 2001, pp.110-115, and p.114 where similar doors to the current lot are illustrated in situ
Note: Lutyens once described Little Thakeham in Sussex, which was designed for Ernest Murray Brown and completed in 1902, as 'the best of the bunch'. The exterior of the house is vernacular, as are several features of the interiors including the magnificent doors, found around the house, of which the current lot is one example. However, the house was one of the first in which Lutyens mixed neoclassical architecture into his previously vernacular style, particularly seen in the large hall.