Name: Auction: EDWARD BARNSLEY (1900-1987) SECRETAIRE DESK, CIRCA 1933
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 22500 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

The Minoprio Collection: British Design in the Arts & Crafts Tradition

Sale number: 669&nbsp; An exciting start to the year, our first auction of 2022, The Minoprio Collection: British Design in the Arts &amp; Crafts Tradition, was a white glove sale - attracting international attention and tripling its original estimate. Competitive bidding across phones lines and internet platforms also saw a world auction record price for a work by Edward Barnsley achieved.A new auction record for Edward Barnsley was among the many highlights of the remarkable Minoprio Collection of Cotswold School furniture sold in our January auction. The first sale of the year for the Design department was a ‘white glove’ event with all 66 lots sold.John Mackie, Head of Decorative Arts &amp; Design commented:“The phenomenal interest we had is testament to the quality of the furniture offered and reflects the rare opportunity to buy from a collection which had been commissioned and purchased by the same family from the 1930s almost to the present day.”John Minoprio had grown up surrounded by superbly made Arts &amp; Crafts furniture by two key makers. Some pieces, made at the Chalford workshop of Peter Waals (1870-1937) in the 1930s had been designed by his father Anthony Minoprio (1900-1988). Others from the mid-century era, were by Edward Barnsley (1900-1987) and made by his craftsmen at Froxfield in Hampshire. &nbsp;To these, John would add his own commissions and purchases, creating an archive that covered almost the entire career of Edward Barnsley and his contemporaries. There were strong prices throughout.As an ambitious young architect setting up home and business in the late 1920s, Anthony Minoprio had held clear ideas of his own about furniture design. His collaboration with Peter Waals produced a group of pieces that combined classic ‘Cotswold School’ features (such as revealed construction, inlaid lines and solid English timbers) with elements that were distinctively of their time.Later, in 1952 Anthony Minoprio approached Edward Barnsley to commission new work. At the time Barnsley was only starting to introduce machinery into the workshop – driven by economic necessity and after World War II Barnsley had developed a lighter style reflecting his interest in 18th century furniture.Like father, like son, in time, John Minoprio would enjoy his own relationship with the Barnsley workshop. When left a legacy in 1966, he spent it on his first three pieces of Cotswold School furniture, beginning a close friendship with Barnsley, who would stay with him in Cheshire on his way to walking holidays in the Lake District. &nbsp;After Barnsley's death, Minoprio continued to commission new work from Jon Barnsley and James Ryan at the Edward Barnsley Workshop.

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Edward Barnsley | British 1900 –1987

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walnut, the fitted interior with leather skiver, patinated brass handles by Alfred Bucknall

SECRETAIRE DESK, CIRCA 1933

EDWARD BARNSLEY (1900-1987) 

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EDWARD BARNSLEY (1900-1987)

SECRETAIRE DESK, CIRCA 1933

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