20th Century Design - 10th September 2014
Lot 1028
Five silver backed mirrored Vita glass panels designed by Hector Whistler for the Marine Spa Torquay
Estimate £2,000 - £3,000
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Description
Five silver backed mirrored Vita glass panels designed by Hector Whistler for the Marine Spa Torquay, 1929 each painted in black with simple boating and seaside scenes panels 96 x 188cm, central domed panel 96 x 206cm.
Provenance
Vita Glass sun lounge, Marine Spa Torquay, 1929
removed from Spa in 1971
Catalogue Notes
Hector Whistler (Reginald Whistler), reputedly the cousin of the artist Rex Whistler, was a camouflage office during World War I, returning to set up a design studio in Oxford after the war. along with this commission he produced a series of decorative glass panels for the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool designed by Herbert J Rowse and built between 1933-1939. These panels were shown to Paul Atterbury on the Antiques Road Show in 2009