An Omega Workshops marquetry Table, designed by Roger Fry and made by J. Kallenborn and Sons, square top and lower removable tray inlaid in holly, ebony and fruitwood with an abstract geometric design, c.1913

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An Omega Workshops marquetry Table, designed by Roger Fry and made by J. Kallenborn and Sons, square top and lower removable tray inlaid in holly, ebony and fruitwood with an abstract geometric design, c.1913
70.5cm. high; 75.8cm. wide; 75.8cm. deep

Lot Essay

The cabinet makers Joseph Kallenborn and Sons, Stanhope Street, London, were responsible for making all the Omega designed marquetry furniture. The output was necessarily small, no doubt in part due to the relatively high price of the pieces produced. This piece is one of only two of this design known to have survived.

Cf. The Omega Workshops, 1913-19, Crafts Council Gallery, London 1984, p.46
El Grup de Bloomsbury, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, 1986, p.41
British Modernist Art, Hirsch and Adler, New York, 1988, no.116 Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, Design and Decoration, 1910-1960, Spink & Son, London 1991

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