Design - Day One

Day 1: Lots 1-436

Day 2: Lots 437-634

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The auction follows design from the Aesthetic Movement of the mid 19th century to designers of today, covering ceramics and glass, furniture and lighting, works on paper, metal ware and jewellery.

Included in the sale is a small collection of items from the descendants of Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910). Day was a polymath and designed for  ceramics, textiles, furniture and metalware whilst also writing numerous books on pattern and textile design. Included in the sale are a group of his books, a previously unrecorded pair of bellows designed and made for his own use and a silver napkin ring made for his wife by Omar Ramsden.  The auction also includes two vases probably designed by Lewis F Day, one for Maw & Co, the other an unknown factory, both consigned by family descendants.

Also featuring in the auction is a selection of contemporary studio glass including a sculpture by Dale Chihuly ‘Persian Set’. A sculpture made of two pieces and retailed at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2001, at the time Chihuly installed the Rotunda Chandelier that hangs in the entrance to the museum. The modernity of form contrasts with glass by Lalique, Whitefriars and a decanter set engraved by Sir Laurence Whistler in 1938.