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1934
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IONIDES, Basil
[115] pp.
10" x 7 1/2"
Country Life Limited London
1934
10" x 7 1/2"
Basil Ionides's second book on the use of colour in interiors, continuing the design advice begun in Colour and Interior Decoration (1926). Chapters include 'Colours for Dark Rooms', Lighting Rooms', 'Colour in Odd Places and 'Good Things that are Gone and Might be Revived'. Ionides' advice is as relevant and influential today as it was in the 1930s. Scarce with the dust jacket, especially in such good condition.
Basil Ionides (20 June 1884 – 23 September 1950) was a British architect who published two best-selling books, Colour and Interior Decoration (1926) and Colour in Everyday Rooms (1934). He is best known for his 1929 interior design of the rebuilt Savoy Theatre in London.
Biography
Ionides was born in Scotland, the fourth son of Luke Ionides and grandson of Alexander Constantine Ionides, Greek ambassador to London. He studied at Tonbridge School and Glasgow School of Art 1900–1903. While there, he wrote architecture articles. He served his apprenticeship with Alexander Nisbet Paterson, during which he designed his first building, the double villa in Winton Drive, when he was only 18. Upon the completion of his apprenticeship in 1904 or 1905, he moved to London and joined the office first of Leonard Stokes and then of Harold Ainsworth Peto.
Ionides entered independent practice in 1908 and designed a number of English houses. During the First World War, he served in the Naval Reserve and was commissioned. He relinquished the commission, however, preferring to serve as an ordinary seaman, as he did not like giving orders to more experienced men. He was injured in 1917 and returned to private practice, particularly performing interior work.
Ionides married the Honourable Nellie Samuel (1883–1962), the widow of Walter Henry Levy, daughter of the 1st Viscount Bearsted, in 1930 after meeting her while he was decorating her residence in Berkeley Square. She was an expert in Oriental porcelain and collected art works, many of which were donated to Richmond Council. Basil and Nellie had one child, Adam, who died at the age of nine. Then Ionides acquired Buxted Park in Buxted, Sussex in 1931. With a combination of Basil's discerning eye and Nellie's fortune as the Shell Oil heiress, they restored the Park and became important art collectors. But fire destroyed much of the house in 1940, and the top storey was lost entirely, with much of their collection. Ionides scavenged architectural pieces from bombed-out buildings around the country with which to rebuild his stately home (now a hotel). He served as High Sheriff of Sussex for 1944.
Ionides was an important Art Deco designer. He was best known as the architect (with Frank A. Tugwell) for the rebuilding of the Savoy Theatre in London in 1929 and for Claridge's Restaurant. For the Savoy Hotel's restaurant, he famously sculpted Kaspar, the Black Cat, who acts as a good-luck guest at tables if thirteen would otherwise be present. He published the important books Colour and Interior Decoration in 1926 and Colour in Everyday Rooms in 1934. He also designed the interior of the ticket hall at Hounslow West tube station. Ionides was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 1931 and was elevated to Fellow in 1938.
Ionides died in Brighton at the age of 66 and is buried in St Margaret's Church in Buxted Park
First edition. Hardback, small quarto; patterned-paper boards, backed with ivory cloth, dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and numerous b&w hors-texte photographic plates. English. Near fine, in near fine dust jacket; short 1cm tear to top edge of front panel, small 1cm chip to lower edge of rear panel, very slight soiling to white rear panel, not price-clipped; light spotting to prelims and edges; a fresh copy in a remarkably well-preserved dust jacket.
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