Lot 408
SIR FRANK BRANGWYN (1867-1956) FOR E. POLLARD AND CO LTD., LONDON
ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1930
Auction: 11 October 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
oak, with rush seat
Dimensions
65cm wide, 106.7cm high, 44cm deep
Provenance
Provenance: Frank Brangwyn, The Jointure, Ditchling, and by descent until September 2000
Private Collection
Footnote
Literature: Marechal, Dominique Frank Brangwyn, Bruges 1987, p. 66, pl.55 where a variant of this chair is shown in a contemporary photograph of the Exhibition of Furniture made by E. Pollard & Co., London, 1930.
Note: Frank Brangwyn created an exhibition of three furnished rooms at Pollard & Co’s Oxford Street showrooms. The furniture was made by Pollard’s, and other exhibits included ceramics by Doulton, Leach Potteries and Ashstead Potters, glass by James Powell, and carpets by James Templeton. A chair of this pattern was included in the 1930 exhibition and illustrated in the catalogue Exhibition of Furniture made by E. Pollard & Co. Ltd from Designs by Frank Brangwyn RA (Autumn 1930).