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Lot Essay
DAVID STYLE, ESQ.
The table was owned by the inveterate collector, dealer and designer David Style. In 1945, he purchased his family's former home, Wateringbury Place near Maidstone, creating interiors that John Harris described in a most vivid way: 'a kaleidoscopic effect of colour and objects, warm and rich, quirky, full of amusement and flashes of inspirational juxtapositions and always agreeable, comfortable and eminently liveable'. By 1963, Style took over the shop of Arthur H. Brown in Chelsea which similarly became 'a mecca for those who shared and appreciated David's infectious and rather quirky taste' (Anthony Coleridge). Not all items were selected on purely decorative merit. Many pieces were of extraordinary quality including the Italian ormolu and pietra dura cabinet from Hamilton Palace, pieces from Ashburnham Place and Leeds Castle, and a suite of Regency furniture by Morel and Hughes from Northumberland House.
The table was owned by the inveterate collector, dealer and designer David Style. In 1945, he purchased his family's former home, Wateringbury Place near Maidstone, creating interiors that John Harris described in a most vivid way: 'a kaleidoscopic effect of colour and objects, warm and rich, quirky, full of amusement and flashes of inspirational juxtapositions and always agreeable, comfortable and eminently liveable'. By 1963, Style took over the shop of Arthur H. Brown in Chelsea which similarly became 'a mecca for those who shared and appreciated David's infectious and rather quirky taste' (Anthony Coleridge). Not all items were selected on purely decorative merit. Many pieces were of extraordinary quality including the Italian ormolu and pietra dura cabinet from Hamilton Palace, pieces from Ashburnham Place and Leeds Castle, and a suite of Regency furniture by Morel and Hughes from Northumberland House.