Lot 31

The top and base in good order with no faults


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Marion Best Pty Ltd, Queen St Woollahra
'Penhallow,' Castlecrag, 1971
The Collection of Richard 'Dick' (1913-1989) and Joan Crebbin

'Sydney Style, Marion Hall Best/Interior Designer', Greenway Gallery Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney, July 31 - October 17 1993, cat. no. 30-32

For comparison, Marion Best's own Platner suite illustrated, Vogue Living, 1968, Babette Hayes and April Hersey, Australian Style, Paul Hamlyn, 1970, pp136-7 and
Catriona Quinn, Sydney Style, Marion Hall Best Interior Designer, Historic Houses Trust 1993, illustrated pp 14, 21, 22

Designed in 1966, Marion Best quickly ordered the Platner armchairs and coffee table for her own home in Woollahra, where they sat in her Marimekko-tented courtyard. This outdoor setting was photographed by Kerry Dundas and featured in the newly launched Vogue Living in 1968, an image that cemented Marimekko, Platner saturated colour and outdoor living as emblematic of Best's late 1960s 'high style.' The Crebbins, always adventurous and taking their cues from Best, ordered the same suite in 1971.