•LASZLO HOENIG: A MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD

•LASZLO HOENIG: A MAHOGANY SIDEBOARD, the shaped top with raised curved ends, below three graduated drawers flanked by two fitted cupboards, the sycamore interior with fitted shelves, the curved "sunburst" sides inlaid with pewter vetical sections, raised on four fluted tapered legs with brass terminals, 198cm wide x 54cm deep x 82cm high Provenance: The Lionel Jacobson Collection, Anderson & Garland, 2008 Laszlo Hoenig, the Jewish modernist designer / architect of Austro-Hungarian descent, settled in London in 1933 as a result of the rise of National Socialism in Germany. Following a brief spell designing for furniture manufacturers E Warren Ltd, Hoenig opened a shop in 1936 in South Audley Street, Mayfair, producing private commissions for a range of wealthy clients and corporations, including the Bank of England, Winston Churchill and Lionel Jacobson, later the head of the Burton Tailoring group.