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Lot 651
Large room size wool carpet traditional design with large central square panel inset with oval flower and motif design, surrounded by cream border with inset circular motifs of leaves and large border of garland flowers and scrolling leaves all in colourful designs. 440 cm x 364 In need of restoration and repair
Lot 759
George III mahogany four post bedstead with fluted and reeded baluster columns surmounted by a moulded cornice, hung with red damask bed curtains, bedspread and valance, 48in wide. Provenance: The " Red Bedroom" Faringdon House, Oxfordshire, which has recently sold, and was the home of Lord Berners - composer, writer, painter. He made FH the centre of a glittering social circle in the last century, entertaining some of the most diverse, creative and influential people during the 1920/30s. Guests included Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John Betjaman, The Mitford Sisters, Salvador Dali, HG Wells, Gertrude Stein. Many guests stayed in the "Red Bed", including Salvador and Gala Dali (see illustration of signature in guest book). Famously quoted by Nancy Mitford (Mitford Sisters & author of Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate) in her article in Homes and Gardens in 1950s, and again in the Book 'The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me' (Lot 266), "I can remember, during the tedious or frightening but always sleepless nights of fire-watchings in wartime London, that the place I longed to be in most intensely was the red bedroom at Faringdon, with its crackling fire, its Bessarabian carpet with bunchy flowers, and above all its four-post bed, whence from beneath a huge fat fluffy old-fashioned quilt one can gaze out at the view, head still on the pillow...."
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