‡A John Makepeace and Ann Sutton white birch table and four throne seating group

‡A John Makepeace and Ann Sutton white birch table and four throne seating group, 1967, the throne benches with curved backs inset with coral red leather to the convex backs, the seat with padded cream Draylon velvet upholstery over low open shelves, each on casters, the circular laminate table on carpeted drum column, 150cm diam.(table), 139cm high, 130cm wide (thrones), (6)

Provenance

Professor Roy Harris (Oxford University) and Rita Harris.

Purchased from John Makepeace 16th November 1967.

Catalogue notes

The table's central drum support is constructed in two pieces enabling the table to be used at two heights. The invoice (no.202) for the suite from John Makepeace and Ann Sutton, is dated November 16th 1967. Ann Sutton notes in the commission instructions 'We have a room in which we wish to eat'.

Literature

Furniture by John Makepeace , Architectural Review, June 1968, page 6 this suite illustrated. The set was also illustrated in The Daily Telegraph magazine July 3rd 1970 page 36.

Modern Home, April 30th 1969, page 16.