Vintage Red and Natural Woven Turkish Silk Damask Style Towel

Silk woven Damask Designer House vintage remnant fabric yardage, in a classical and popular Napoleonic Abusson Design. Finely woven on jacquard looms ...

A Pair of pure silk damask pillows with down and feather inserts. The best quality upholstery weight silk fabric with a steel Aqua background with an umber-plum damask pattern. These...

A hand woven Turkish “Siirt” blanket. Made with without dyes from natural color mohair goat wool. A thin flat weave with long shaggy fibers give this wea...

A hand woven Turkish “Siirt” throw. Made with without dyes from natural color mohair goat wool. A thin flat weave with long shaggy fibers give this weavi...

Large pillow made from a vintageTurkish Anatolian rug. 16'' x 33''

Each with a damask pattern of scrolling foliage, peonies, tulips and fruit. Massive pattern repeat, see image. Original braid. Cleaned and conserved. Measures: Two height 315 cm., 124 in., width 107 cm., 42 in., One height 295 cm, 116 in., width 109.5 cm., 43 in., From the collection of the 1st Viscount Cowdray, Cowdray Park, Sussex, supplied by Lengyon & Co, circa 1910. Francis Lenyon, Lenyon & Co, Lenyon & Morant Born in England in 1877, Lenyon was trained as a cabinetmaker and studied at the South Kensington Museum in London. By 1900, he found work with Art Workshops, Ltd., and soon after with Charles Duveen, son of Sir Joseph Duveen. Employed by C.J. Charles for several years, Lenyon became well-known as cabinetmaker to England's aristocracy. He opened his own firm, Lenyon & Co., in 1904, and in 1912 merged with Morant & Co., to become Lenyon & Morant, holding royal warrants under four successive British kings. In 1910, Lenyon made his first visit to the United States to supervise the interior decoration of Whitlaw Reid, and soon opened a New York branch of his firm. As in England, Lenyon 's American clients were wealthy and sophisticated and relied on Lenyon to furnish authentic and reproduction interiors in period styles. In the 1930s, Lenyon was hired by Nelson Rockfeller to serve as a major consultant to the reconstruction of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, and selected all the furnishings for the Governor's Palace there. Lenyon was widely known for his expertise in 17th and 18th century British furniture...