Lyon & Turnbull’s single-owner sale titled The Minoprio Collection: British Design in the Arts & Crafts Tradition held in Edinburgh on January 11 included some very strong prices for mid-century Cotswolds School furnishings.
The private collection offered in 65 lots came for sale from John Minoprio, who grew up surrounded by furniture designed either by his architect father Anthony Minoprio (1900-88) or by Edward Barnsley (1900-87). He himself enjoyed a long, friendly and productive relationship with Barnsley and the craftsmen in his workshop at Froxfield in Hampshire.