SIR ROBERT LORIMER (1864-1929)
WALNUT SINGLE BED, CIRCA 1920
Auction: 13 August 2014 at 12:00 BST
£375
Description
the arched headboard with corresponding footboard raised on moulded legs and linked by deal runners
Dimensions
206cm long, 124cm high, 92cm wide
Footnote
Provenance: Balmanno Castle, Perthshire, and by family descent
Literature: Savage, Peter 'Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers', London 1980, pp. 121-6.
Note: Balmanno was Lorimer's favourite commission and the only one of his houses where he would have liked to have lived himself. Built in 1916 for the Glasgow shipping magnate W.A. Miller, it was a 16th century tower house which Lorimer was asked to remodel, lay out the grounds and to furnish from top to bottom.