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THB(2) English Liberty & Co. Art Nouveau Lily Leaf Form Brass Wall Sconces
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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(2) English Liberty & Co. Art Nouveau Lily Leaf Form Brass Wall Sconces. Pair of matched leaf-form brass candelabras with single sconce apiece. With impressed details, including leaf veins and image of frog hunting a fly. Likely made during one of the revival periods of their famous style, probably in the 1960s.
Size: 10 3/4 x 7 in.
#4366 .
In 1876 Arthur Lasenby Liberty (1843-1917) opened a shop on Regent Street in London opposite his former employer, Farmer & Stiles. He had started working for them in 1862, when London’s second major International Exposition was held in Kensington, and he was particularly enamored with the Japanese arts and crafts that were on display. When he was made manager of their Oriental Warehouse in 1864 he acquired a significant number of pieces, and eventually decided to open his own store devoted to them. Along with three staff members and a significant loan from his future father-in-law, Liberty’s quickly earned a reputation for the ornaments, fabric, and objets d’art from Japan, India, and the East that they offered. Within eighteen months he had repaid the loan and acquired the second half of his building, eventually expanding into neighboring properties as the business grew. In 1884 he introduced the costume department, directed by Edward William Godwin (1833-1886), a distinguished architect and a founding member of The Costume Society. He and Arthur Liberty created in-house apparel to challenge the fashions of Paris. In 1885 nearly a third of the block of Regent Street was acquired to house the ever-increasing demand for carpets and furniture. The basement was named the Eastern Bazaar, and it was the vending place for what was described as “decorative furnishing objects.” He named the property Chesham House, after the place in which he grew up in Buckinghamshire. The store became the most fashionable place to shop in London, and Liberty fabrics were used for both clothing and furnishings. In November 1885 Liberty brought forty-two villagers from India to stage a “living village” of Indian artisans. During the 1890s Liberty built strong relationships with many English designers, including Archibald Knox, and encouraged artistic styles known as Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. The company became associated with this new style, to the extent that in Italy Art Nouveau became known as the Stile Liberty, after the London shop. In 1924 the store was almost completely rebuilt as a Tudor revival building using the timbers of two ships, the HMS Impregnable (formerly HMS Howe) and HMS Hindustan. Arthur Liberty died in 1917, seven years before the completion of the shop, but the company continued to flourish even through the Depression and the Second World War. During the 1950s Liberty continued its tradition for fashionable and eclectic design, developing collections for both contemporary and traditional designs, and expanding significantly by opening stores in Manchester, Bath, Brighton, Chester, York, Kingston upon Thames, Exeter, and Norwich. During the 1960s extravagant and Eastern influences once again became fashionable, along with a revival of the Art Deco style, and Liberty adapted new furnishing designs from its archive. Since 1988 Liberty had a subsidiary in Japan, with Liberty-branded products available in many major Japanese shops. In 1996 Liberty abruptly announced the closure of its twenty shops outside London, and instead focused on smaller outlets at airports. Liberty’s London was sold and then leased back to the firm in 2009, to pay off debts before its acquisition by the private equity firm BlueGem Capital the following year. Today Liberty & Co. continues to be a popular shopping and tourist destination, showcasing Oriental designs from over a century ago.
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10 3/4 x 7 in.
