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Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens. A Rare Newspaper Basket with Acorn Finials (replaced)

Name: Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens. A Rare Newspaper Basket with Acorn Finials (replaced)
SKU: PV004850
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A rare newspaper basket in walnut designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens during the Arts and Crafts movement (1880–1910). Created for his own household use, the basket has a tapering body with a gadrooned top edge and ball mouldings around the base. It stands on square moulded tapering legs united by an H-shaped stretcher, and retains its original brass and ceramic castors. The acorn finials have been replaced.

Published and illustrated in Truth, Beauty and Design: Victorian, Edwardian and Later Decorative Art, Adrian J. Tilbrook and Fischer Fine Art, Exhibition Catalogue, p. 69, fig. 168. Lutyens’ daughter Mary confirmed that this basket was designed for his own use prior to 1919, when the family lived at 13 Mansfield Street, London. Following Lutyens’ death in 1944, it passed to his wife Emily, and subsequently to their daughter Mary in 1966.

Lutyens’ granddaughter Candia also confirmed its authenticity, writing:

“As the granddaughter of Edwin Lutyens and expert on his furniture, you have my wholehearted endorsement of this piece being original Lutyens. I remember it very well beside my Aunt, Mary Lutyens’s, armchair in her house in London. I believe on her death she bequeathed it to the architectural historian and her great friend Colin Amery.”

Dimensions

Height: 31.1 in (79 cm)
Width: 31.1 in (79 cm)
Depth: 23.23 in (59 cm)

Year of manufacture

1910

Maker

Edward Lutyens

Designer

Edward Lutyens

Period

Arts & Crafts Movement
1910-1919

Style

Arts and Crafts