14th Jun, 2025 9:30 GMT/BST
20th Century Design
70
After Eero Saarinen: A Tulip Dining Set, circa 1970s, comprising
Table, with a circular white laminated ply top, on a white die-cast aluminum base, stamped in cast Made in England,
121cm diameter, 70cm high
Six Chairs, white fibreglass shell seats, on white die-cast aluminum bases, orange/yellow pad seats, unmarked,
49cm wide
46cm deep
80cm high seat 40cm high (7)
Purchased in 1979.
Sold for £450
Estimated at £500 - £700
Auction: 20th Century Design, 14th Jun, 2025
An array of 20th Century Design is coming up for sale at Tennants 14th June, and amongst the over 250 lots is a colourful and vibrant collection of glass by contemporary glass-maker Ruth Dresman. Being sold from a Private Collection of Glass and Studio Pottery, each piece of Dresman’s glass is engraved using a unique sandblasting method.
Amongst a wide range of furniture and furnishings by Yorkshire icon Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson and his workshop is an impressive English Oak 7ft Refectory Table, made in 1932 for the University of Aberdeen, and there is also a good variety of furniture by the other Yorkshire Critter carvers, with pieces by the likes of Squirrelman, Wrenman, Beaverman and Gnomeman.
Modern design furniture in the sale includes pieces by Charles and Ray Eames and Merrow Associates, and there is a good private collection of pots by Poh Chap Yeap, one of the leading potters working in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.
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