BONHAMS 22 QUEEN STREET EDINBURGH, EH2 1JX HOME & interiors EDINBURGH Wednesday 14 June 2017 HOME & interiors Ӏ Edinburgh Ӏ 14 June 2017 THIS SALE FEATURES Silver, Furniture, Works of Art, Ceramics and Glass, Clocks, Paintings, Rugs and Carpets AT HOME WITH 24086 Hugh Buchanan, the celebrated artist INTERNATIONAL AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS – BONHAMS.COM HOME & interiors EDINBURGH SALE WEDNESDAY 14 JUNE 2017, 10.00 VIEWINGS SUNDAY 11 JUNE 2017, 13.00 - 16.00 MONDAY 12 JUNE 2017, 10.00 - 16.00 TUESDAY 13 JUNE 2017, 10.00 - 16.00 WEDNESDAY 14 JUNE 2017, 9.00 - 10.00 VENUE 22 QUEEN STREET EDINBURGH EH2 1JX MEET THE TEAM Kenneth Naples Georgia Williams Head of Home & Interiors, Furniture & Works of Art Edinburgh [email protected] [email protected] 0131 240 2296 0131 240 0912 Fiona Hamilton Iain Byatt-Smith Silver Pictures [email protected] [email protected] 0131 240 2631 0131 240 0913 Katherine Wright Bruce Addison Ceramics & Glass Head of Furniture [email protected] [email protected] 0131 240 0911 0131 240 0910 SALE INFORMATION FURNITURE, SCULPTURE & WORKS OF PLEASE NOTE THAT BIDS SHOULD BE PAYMENTS ART, CARPETS, TAPESTRIES & RUGS SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN 4PM ON THE BUYERS KENNETH NAPLES DAY PRIOR TO THE SALE. 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Caroline Oliphant, Shahin Virani, Charles Lanning, Miranda Leslie, Edward Wilkinson, Leslie Wright. at home with HUGH BUCHANAN The artist talks to Lucinda Bredin on where to find value at auction – and on how history keeps repeating itself Photography by Gilberto Martinez he artist, Hugh Buchanan, has a theory about taste. It is see a pattern. Every 40 years, there is a revival of Classicism. one that offers succour to those who are longing to see Take Lutyens in the early 1900s. His classically inspired buildings the end of the current mode for white cube interiors with were a reaction against Gothic. Jump forward 40 years to Cecil PerspexT chairs, and sleek modernist lines. Moreover, he predicts, Beaton, Evelyn Waugh and Rex Whistler as another reinvention the return of brown furniture, no less. You see, it is all to do with of Classicism. Jump forward another 40 years you have an cycles. interesting collection of films – Brideshead Revisited on TV, We are sitting in the drawing room at Woodhall, a turreted Werner Herzog looking back to the antique with Aguirre the house dating from 1560 – complete with crenelations – where Wrath of God and Peter Greenaway’s Draughtsman’s Contract. Hugh lives with his family. Shortly after he married art historian You also had a huge interest in Interiors – The World of Interiors and teacher, Ann de Rohan, in 1983, the pair took over the began around this time as well. In between these classical family home and began to slowly but gradually began to turn periods there are eccentric bursts of taste such as Art Deco in it into a temple to Classicism. Among the many highlights, the 1920s and the acid-fuelled take on art nouveau that inspired there is a collection of antique fragments displayed on the wall, the 1970s.” (bought from the closing-down sale of Whytock and Reid, Robert So what phase are we living in now? “Well, it’s a strange Lorimer’s Edinburgh-based cabinet makers) surrounding Hugh’s era of eclecticism we live in now, with its mismatched crockery, portrait of Vespasian. There is a large neo-Classical painting of glass boxes and retro 1950s furniture. Some people say that it a Bacchanal in the drawing room and a further series of Hugh’s is here to stay; that we are now condemned to the equivalent paintings of the Roman emperors that he particularly admires. of an everlasting aesthetic jumble sale. Engaging as he is, I The drawing room is completed by some handsome Biedermeier blame Kevin McCloud and Grand Designs.