A SET OF TWELVE DINING ARMCHAIRS, CIRCA 1930

Details

ATTRIBUTED TO ROBERT LUTYENS (1901-1971)
A SET OF TWELVE DINING ARMCHAIRS, CIRCA 1930
mahogany, leather upholstery
36 ¼ in. (92.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Mrs. Barbara Agar, Beechwood House, Ductan, England; Sotheby's, London, 17 September 1981, lot 287.

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Lot Essay

Comparable examples of related designs for chairs are preserved in the architect’s photographic archive. Another set of eight chairs, ensuite to the present lot and presumed to share the same provenance, were loaned by Mrs Amanda Pallant to the Hayward Gallery exhibition, Lutyens, 1981-1982, cat. no. 487.

Christie's would like to thank Candia Lutyens for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.

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