THE BOOTH-HOWELL COLLECTION

Liberty and the Arts & Crafts Movement 1 to 26 April 1998

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The rare and unusual 'Celtic' Sideboard, pictured above, with metalwork designed by

Archibald Knox and made for Liberty was at the center of the first of the Antique Trader's

exhibitions devoted to the British Arts & Crafts Movement.

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In the mid 1970's Wendy Booth & Leslie Howell started a textile design studio in London. Visits to friends in New York introduced them to the Stickley style. Searching for furniture for their new house they realised that English Arts & Crafts were just as affordable and often more interesting. Over the following twenty years they amassed an impressive collection including the above Liberty 'Celtic' sideboard which they christened "Bertha". An early  photograph of this sideboard is illustrated in Mervyn Levy's book 'Liberty Style' (p66) and described as hitherto unrecorded.

On moving permanently to their cottage on the South coast  Wendy and Leslie were obliged to part with a lot of their treasured collection and chose to do so with a major exhibition at The Millinery Works.

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