Lot Essay
Similar example illustrated:
R. Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, London, 2009, p. 290 fig. 1917.1C.
This model was designed in 1917 for Sidney Horstmann.
W. J. Bassett-Lowke had commissioned Mackintosh to rework a number of interiors in and around Northampton in 1916-17, most significantly at 78 Derngate. He acted as an advocate of his work to his friends and three commissions for Mackintosh's bedroom suite, first designed for 13 Kingswell in 1916, are known to have been produced. The first, for Sidney Horstmann of Bath, also included the additions of a luggage stool, washstand and a towel rail of the design seen here. At the same time, suites were made for Bassett-Lowke's business colleague W. Franklin and a presumed further associate, a Mr Ling. The entire Horstamm suite is now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the location of the third towel rail is currently unknown. Intriguingly, it is believed that all these pieces, including the current lot, were produced at the Knockaloe camp on the Isle of Man by interned German craftsmen during the First World War.
R. Billcliffe, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings and Interior Designs, London, 2009, p. 290 fig. 1917.1C.
This model was designed in 1917 for Sidney Horstmann.
W. J. Bassett-Lowke had commissioned Mackintosh to rework a number of interiors in and around Northampton in 1916-17, most significantly at 78 Derngate. He acted as an advocate of his work to his friends and three commissions for Mackintosh's bedroom suite, first designed for 13 Kingswell in 1916, are known to have been produced. The first, for Sidney Horstmann of Bath, also included the additions of a luggage stool, washstand and a towel rail of the design seen here. At the same time, suites were made for Bassett-Lowke's business colleague W. Franklin and a presumed further associate, a Mr Ling. The entire Horstamm suite is now in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the location of the third towel rail is currently unknown. Intriguingly, it is believed that all these pieces, including the current lot, were produced at the Knockaloe camp on the Isle of Man by interned German craftsmen during the First World War.