Mike Mak Design

I love this modern, minimalist take on the old-fashioned rolling-eye clock which was popular from the late 1920s. Designed by Mike Mak (not sure if it's in production or if it's just a sketch, I'm guessing with no pricing info etc that it's the latter)

Mike Mak Design

Bonhams Sale 17191 - Decorative Arts

Bonhams are having a decorative arts sale - some very nice objects in it:

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Lot No: 2

A Gordon Russell double helix mahogany sideboard, designed by David Booth, circa 1950, for the Festival of Britain of 1951

Estimate: £400 - 600


I know very little about David Booth (I know very little about furniture designers generally, but that's another story). This piece is very striking, not in a flashy way, just nicely proportioned and with a handsome bit of detailing on the front. The helix detail was apparently achieved by cutting through the veneer, to show the material underneath (so smart as well as elegant), you can read more about David Booth here.

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Lot No: 122

A George Anton Scheidt silver mounted bird's eye maple cigarette box

Estimate: £200 - 300


The wood and the silver harmonise so well with this box, the patina of age completes the effect., lush!

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Lot No: 175

A Georg Jensen brooch designed by Arno Malinowski (1949)

Estimate: £100 - 150

Just a very charming design.

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Bonhams sale

Bonhams have the most amazing stuff on their website - here are some interesting bits and pieces from Sale 16781 - Mechanical Music, Scientific Instruments and the Jeffrey Salmon Collection of Radios

Knightsbridge, 28 Apr 2009

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Philips

type 2634, 1931
with large speaker above micro-window vertical dial, side controls, in raised heptagon brown bakelite case; and a Nora-Radio type W3L in arched bakelite case (2)

Estimate: £200 - 250

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Lot No: 59

Emerson

type 258, 'The Strad', 1939
burr-walnut veneered version,
number unknown, with D shape dial, the famous case in the form of a stylised violin with f holes in the slight domed top, speaker with five-bar raised curved ribs, linier parallel inlay through the horizontal - 10.3/4in. (27.2cm) wide

Estimate: £150 - 250

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Lot No: 49

Phonola desk-top

type 547, 1939, by Livio Castiglioni (1911-1979)
Brown bakelite version, with three push-buttons between the square dial and plaque, twin wheel scales, single-mould raised speaker hood and square-form base - 9.3/4in. (24.8cm) wide

Estimate: £300 - 500

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Lot No: 50

Sparton

rare (English version) Type 517, 'The Sled', by Walter Teague, 1936,
No. 097614, with the main deep blue mirrored glass panels each with bevelled edges, the top with curved front right corner above linier five chrome ribs, etched continuation lines to the front surrounding rare circular type dial with the tuning knob to dial centre, wavelength and volume flanking below, the curved theme concluding to bottom left corner and cracked iced marble painted effect to dark wood trims to sides and three-bar 'sled' runners as base supports 17.1/2in. (44.4cm) wide

Estimate: £1,500 - 2,500

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