Forthcoming Attractions: September 2015

Here are some of our vintage furniture and homeware purchases from this past week.

We’ll start with the painting – an original 1960s oil on board. It’s entitled ‘Waterfront’ and features a harbour scene with dock buildings, cranes and lights reflected in the still water.

The artist is J. Jennings.

Next up, this superb lamp by Hadrill & Horstmann. It has a counterweight mechanism which not only looks great, but works very efficiently too – the perfect design combo. The West German pottery vases & planters always sell well – especially with that distinctive flash of volcanic orange.

And more vibrant colour… this G-Plan stool with its original yellow fabric upholstery didn’t take much deciding upon.

It’s a fabulous shape too and went straight into the boot of the car!

There are slightly more muted tones in this studio pottery lamp base, but it’s no less attractive.

We’ve got a friend whose studio pottery collection is ever expanding.

She gave an, ‘oooooooh that’s nice!’, when she saw it – and has thus managed to squeeze one more piece into her house!

David Wild oil painting

In addition to the usual furniture, pottery and lamps that we buy on out travels, we occasionally come across great pieces of art for sale.

Not surprisingly given our location, well-regarded Northern artists are of particular interest – the way in which they capture both the rural and urban landscapes.

We were offered this fantastic painting recently and snapped it up.

It’s entitled ‘Skidding, icy sunset, Crescent, Salford’ and is the work of David Wilde (1913 – 1974). This particular piece dates from the mid to late 1960s.

Perhaps somewhat overlooked until a recent resurgence in interest, his work was actually exhibited alongside the likes of Picasso & Dali in his lifetime.