Howard Keith Original Barbican Brown Modular Corner Sofa By HK London Mid Century Vintage Retro MCM

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Howard Keith Original Barbican Brown Modular Corner Sofa By HK London Mid Century Vintage Retro MCM

An extremely rare and beautiful original late 1970s Howard Keith Barbican modular sofa set with ‘Bastion’ arms.

This amazing and desirable sofa set is upholstered in its original brown square pin stripe velvet velour fabric, which will need work and TLC hence the low price.

The sofa itself sits on a black wooden plinth box which hides its castors and creates a shadow gap to give the illusion of the sofa floating above the ground.

The set includes:-

Three seater with an arm
One and half seater with an arm
Corner seat

The maximum seats this set allows is five.

The arms and base are removable for ease of transport and getting through doorways etc.

Complete with stamps, labels and original documents.

Dimensions
310cm x 210cm
Depth - 100cm

Howard Keith was born Hans Krebs in 1902 in Germany and changed his name when he came to England around 1933, presumably to escape Nazi Germany.

Founded in 1933 by Howard Keith, HK established a name for high-quality upholstered products. Howard Keith was a designer and maker of stylish upholstered furniture producing designs for a great number of companies.

Chairs like the Encore, Viking and Bambino and lounge seating such as Diplomat, Barbican and Cloud ensured Howard Keith’s position as one of the country’s top furniture designers in the 1940s, 50s, 60s and 70s.

Keith’s company was highly successful in making modern designs for domestic sofas and chairs well into the 1970s, before becoming one of Europe’s top high-end contract upholstery manufacturer.

HK designs provided furniture for the QE2, Marlborough House, The Royal Train during the Queen’s jubilee year, the States of Jersey Parliament, the Stock Exchange Boardroom, BP’s headquarters and supplies leather seating for the Portcullis House, new parliament building at Westminster.

Royal patrons such as Princess Margaret, celebrities and pop stars such as Elton John and Abba, embassies and exclusive hotels, and even the QE2 all took their delivery of Howard Keith furniture during the 60s, 70s and 80s.

In the 1970s, HK started manufacturing high-end conference tables and executive desks and became known for craftsmanship, quality and design winning contracts for major blue-chip organizations such as The Bank of England, The Stock Exchange, Barclays and BP. In 2000, HK made the news desk for BBC South East.

Today, the company still specializes in high-quality, custom-made executive and conference room furniture.

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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.
Please message before purchasing to confirm delivery costs.

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.