1
/
2
Heal & Son – Arts and Crafts Oak Torchère Plant Stand with Exposed Joints
POA
By Heal & Son, a plain oak torchère or plant stand aligned to the Arts and Crafts tradition (1880–1910), c.1930. In quarter-sawn oak showing strong ray fleck, the design uses a square top with exposed biscuit joints and four straight square legs, giving a restrained workshop aesthetic associated with Ambrose Heal’s plain-oak programme.
Provenanced to Overstrand Hall, North Norfolk, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1899–1901, later used as a convalescent home in the early 1930s and furnished by Heal’s. The provenance, construction and materials are consistent with interwar Heal’s production.
-thumb.jpg)
-thumb.jpg)
