Lots 85-93 The collection of Arts and Crafts furniture in the following nine lots comes from the estate of Fiona MacCarthy (1940-2020) who was married to David Mellor (1930-2009), the Sheffield-based designer. MacCarthy’s background as a journalist for House and Garden magazine and the Guardian lay the foundations in her seminal biographical works on S R Ashbee, William Morris Eric Gill and 'Walter Gropius, Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus' which was published in 2019. Involved across the arts, she curated exhibitions such as 'Homespun to High-speed: British Design 1860 to 1960' at Sheffield Museums and Art Galleries in 1979; 'Eye for Industry: Retrospective of the Royal Designers' at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1986, and 'Anarchy and Beauty, William Morris and his Legacy' at the National Portrait Gallery in 2014. A Heal and Son oak wardrobe, designed by Sir Ambrose Heal with a plain top over a panelled cupboard with a heart-shaped escutcheon, above a panelled door enclosing a rail, with a shaped lockplate and a knob handle, with an oval metal label ‘Heal & Son 196 Tottenham Ct Road London’, 107cm wide 52cm deep 189.5cm high Provenance: The Estate of Fiona MacCarthy (1940-2020).
Lots 85-93 The collection of Arts and Crafts furniture in the following nine lots comes from the estate of Fiona MacCarthy (1940-2020) who was married to David Mellor (1930-2009), the Sheffield-based designer. MacCarthy’s background as a journalist for House and Garden magazine and the Guardian lay the foundations in her seminal biographical works on S R Ashbee, William Morris Eric Gill and 'Walter Gropius, Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus' which was published in 2019. Involved across the arts, she curated exhibitions such as 'Homespun to High-speed: British Design 1860 to 1960' at Sheffield Museums and Art Galleries in 1979; 'Eye for Industry: Retrospective of the Royal Designers' at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1986, and 'Anarchy and Beauty, William Morris and his Legacy' at the National Portrait Gallery in 2014. A Heal and Son oak wardrobe, designed by Sir Ambrose Heal with a plain top over a panelled cupboard with a heart-shaped escutcheon, above a panelled door enclosing a rail, with a shaped lockplate and a knob handle, with an oval metal label ‘Heal & Son 196 Tottenham Ct Road London’, 107cm wide 52cm deep 189.5cm high Provenance: The Estate of Fiona MacCarthy (1940-2020).
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