How to add art and antiques to your home for that interior designer look

Adding touches of Arts & Crafts, Mid Century Modern or Modern British art is a way to bring that ‘interior designer style’ to your own home.

Sideboard and table

Sir Basil Spence sideboard and table from the Allegro design c.1949 for Morris & Co, estimated at £3000-5000 at McTear's on June 7.

Here are five items of art and antiques coming up at online auction in June.

1. Sideboard and table

Sideboard

Sir Basil Spence's sideboard from the Allegro design.

This laminated wood sideboard and table were designed by Scottish architect Sir Basil Spence (1907-76). Spence is famed for his work on Coventry Cathedral in England as well as numerous other Modernist style buildings. The sideboard and table are part of a well-known suite designed in 1947-48 and produced in 1949 as part of the Allegro series. Spence designed this line for Glasgow firm Morris & Co. A full Allegro suite is held by the National Museum of Scotland. These examples still have the label Morris Made Guaranteed Trade Mark Glasgow and are estimated at £3000-5000 at McTear’s on June 7.

2. Eric Ravilious lithograph

Eric Ravilious lithograph

An Eric Ravilious lithograph of Second-Hand Furniture and Effects with a second artwork called Fire Engineer, estimated at £200-300 at Parker Fine Art’s June 8 auction.

Eric Ravilious (1903-42) was an English painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraverand is well-known for his watercolours. In 1938 he produced designs for 24 lithographs for High Street, a book about shops printed by the Curwen Press.

Original lithographs are the originals, while modern digitally printed reproductions can also be found for sale elsewhere.

3. Arts & Crafts light

Light pendant

This Arts & Crafts c.1900-10 ceiling light pendant in brass and opalescent glass by James Powell & Sons is estimated a £600-1000 at McTear’s on June 7.

4. Victorian jardiniere

Jardiniere

This Doulton Lambeth stoneware jardiniere is dated to 1877 and modelled in relief with flower roundels and stems, in green, blue and brown. It is estimated at £150-200 at Woolley & Wallis on June 21.

5. Victorian stained glass window

Stained glass window

This late Victorian leaded stained glass window is estimated at £150-200 at Swan Fine Art’s June 7 sale.

 

 

 

 

 

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