The rare pair of corner wardrobes, standing at six feet each, in limed or bleached oak by Heal and Son Ltd, each being of wonderful quality and fitting snuggly into a corner, being attractively panelled with twelve sections, the interiors differing, with adjustable storage shelves and extending metal clothes rails to numerous original brass and later plastic hanging hooks, the wholes surviving from the second quarter of the twentieth century.
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Heal’s is a furniture and home decor store in London that was founded in 1810 by John Harris Heal and its headquarters have been located in Tottenham Court Road since 1818. The company has a history of innovation, including being one of the first retailers to use electric lighting and book jacket advertisements. Limed oak has been a signature look for Heal’s of London for many years and Heal’s clean lines and light woods, make it as fashionable today as it was a century ago.
Very hard indeed to find as a pair, and in a rarer design, these represent true timeless construction.
Both wardrobes are in good clean order, one of them has lost its Heals circular ivorine plaque to the inner door. The interiors to each differ as photographed with the extending hanging rail in operation to each. All the fixings and fittings are original. The depositary labels to the reverse show a date of July 5th 1935.
By appointment only.
