‡A John Makepeace and Ann Sutton double bed sleeping area

‡A John Makepeace and Ann Sutton double bed sleeping area, comprising nine white plastic laminated sections, with wooden base, unsigned,

306cm. long, 193cm. wide, 39cm. high, (9)

Provenance

Professor Roy Harris (Oxford University) and Rita Harris. Commissioned and purchased in 1970 this bed reached the national press, being the focus of an article in The Daily Mail, 24th February 1970. It was designed to give a couple a good nights sleep, with the quote (in the commission instruction) from Roy Harris that 'Sometimes a chap wants to sleep with his wife and sometimes a chap has a cold'.