Skip to main content
John Makepeace Unique 'fireside' desk, 1980 image 1
John Makepeace Unique 'fireside' desk, 1980 image 2
John Makepeace Unique 'fireside' desk, 1980 image 3
Lot 10AR,TP

John Makepeace
Unique 'fireside' desk, 1980

4 October 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £7,650 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Modern Decorative Art & Design specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

John Makepeace

Unique 'fireside' desk, 1980
Paldao-veneered wood, suede-covered wood, stainless steel, melamine.
97 x 108 x 37.5 cm
Executed by Derek Christison, John Makepeace Workshop, Parnham House, Dorset, United Kingdom. Incised Designed by John Makepeace and made in his workshops at Parnham by Derek Christison 1980.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, United Kingdom, commissioned from the designer
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited
'John Makepeace: Enriching the Language of Furniture', The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Devon, 18 September-29 October 2010; Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire, 7 November-24 December 2010; Collins Gallery, Glasgow, 15 January-5 March 2011; Somerset House, London, 16 March-15 April 2011; Crafts Study Centre, Surrey, 26 April-16 July 2011; and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 23 September-20 November 2011.

Literature
John Makepeace: Enriching the Language of Furniture, The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, exh. cat., Bovey Tracey, 2010, illustrated p. 19

In his design of the present 'fireside' desk John Makepeace thoughtfully responded to his client's needs. The chair of an international company, the client, when at home, required a space to store her sewing materials (used to repair clothing between long journeys) and watercolour paints, a filing drawer for personal correspondence, and a low swivel writing surface that extended comfortably above her knees while she sat writing from an Eames armchair.

Bonhams wishes to thank John Makepeace for his assistance cataloguing the present lot.

Additional information

Bid now on these items