RARE ART DECO RUGS
Posted by Doris Leslie Blau. on 09/08/2021
Rare antique rugs.
Sir Frank William Brangwyn (1867 Bruges, Belgium -1956 Ditchling, Sussex, England) was a polymath, an artist-craftsman who created murals, oils and watercolors, furniture, textiles, ceramics, stained glass and prints. In his early career, he worked as an apprentice for William Morris’ workshop, enlarging designs and tracing drawings.
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Brangwyn was commissioned by E. Pollard & Co. Ltd, London, to design the fixtures and fittings for two bedrooms, a sitting room and a dining room for their October 1930 exhibition of modern furnishings. The three rugs available for sale at Doris Leslie Blau, or a version of them, were part of that exhibition which makes them truly valuable collector pieces. The rugs were manufactured by James Templeton & Co in Glasgow, Scotland.
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1930 Art Deco Rug by Sir Frank Brangwyn BB6261
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Brangwyn and Templeton’s mutual interest was to combine the “Fine Arts” with the “Industrial Arts” to create what they described as “Art in Industry”. Moreover, at least one of the rugs they made together for the Pollard & Co exhibition survives to this day in the Textile Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The museum’s on-line catalogue notes that the carpet has a “Pink-beige ground with a pattern of stylized floral and foliate motifs in pastel shades of pink, yellow, green, blue, purple, white and brown.”
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1930 Art Deco Rug by Sir Frank Brangwyn BB0106
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Artist's woven signature at two ends “FB”
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