Lot 415
SET OF TEN OAK AND UPHOLSTERED DINING CHAIRS IN THE MANNER OF SIR ROBERT LORIMER
WHYTOCK & REID, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Auction: 9 December 2009 at 11:00 GMT
Description
including one armchair, covered in foliate patterned blue fabric, raised on cabriole legs with stylised foliate carved decoration, ending in faceted pad feet (10)
Footnote
Note: this represents half of a set of chairs made for Robert Finnie McEwen at Marchmont House.
From 1914 -17 McEwen commissioned Sir Robert Lorimer to make various alterations: a top floor was added and given dormer windows in a steeper pitched roof; the flanking pavilions were connected to the house internally; by lowering the ground at the front of the house the entrance was relocated on the ground floor with the addition of a porch, and the former entrance, now the central window of the first floor Saloon, made redundant. Internally the main staircase was removed, and a new grander staircase was located to the right of the entrance beneath a dome. The dining room and library were swapped so that the latter now overlooks the front of the house. A grand double storey music room, originally designed by Lorimer for Rowallan Castle, was made out of the stable wing in the north pavilion.