SOLD Beithcraft Teak Mid Century Coffee Table Vintage Retro MCM

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Beithcraft Teak Mid Century Coffee Table Vintage Retro MCM

£495

From the mid 19th century until the 1980s, Beith, in Ayrshire, was the most important furniture manufacturing town in Scotland, with a reputation for high-quality furniture.

Originally called ‘Balfours’, before being called Beithcraft, the company were for a number of years the main manufacturers of mantelpieces in Scotland and Matthew Pollock Ltd supplied furniture to both the RMS Queen Mary and the RMS Queen Elizabeth II.

Until the early 1960s Beithcraft produced furniture that was very traditional, including Queen Anne style furniture in walnut.

Frank Guille then began to design for them and Beithcraft started to produce the modern furniture that they are still so revered for today. Guille also designed for Kandya and Austinsuite. He had trained under Robin Day and Kaare Klint, so came with modern British and Danish influences.

Val Rossi had been designing for A.H. McIntosh of Kirkcaldy under Tom Robertson in the early 1960s. Rossi then appears to have taken over from Guille at Beithcraft around 1963/64 and it was Val Rossi who designed most of the outstanding Beithcraft sideboards that are so desired throughout the globe today.

Beithcraft were taken over by McIntosh in the 1970s while Rossi was still working for them. By the late ’70s, tastes were changing once again and, astonishingly, the demand for Rossi’s sublime designs began to fall away.

Dimensions
Height - 45cm
Width - 45cm
Depth - 120cm

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Local delivery can be free depending on distance. National and international delivery is available at an extra cost which we can organise on your behalf.

Collection in person is welcome. We are West of Cambridge in Bourn CB23.

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Please note that vintage furniture may have some slight imperfections, which is to be expected in keeping with its age, as we do not offer returns on items sold.