A group of cutting-edge objects consigned by British textile artist and designer Ann Sutton (b.1935) were offered as part of the Lyon & Turnbull (26/25/20% buyer’s premium) Modern Made auction.
De-cluttering with the sale of 43 lots from her very personal art collection, Sutton chose to part with some of the 1980s furniture created for her Arundel studio by former student Jim Partridge (b.1953).
Artist cabinet-maker Partridge, who studied at the John Makepeace School for Craftsmen in Wood at Parnham House in Dorset, recalled that the pair worked together on a new kind of furniture that, while certainly not fine cabinet making, had plenty of attitude.