Floor
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1939 - 1991
Materials
Accotile
Measurements
15.3 cm (Width) x 15.3 cm (Depth)
Collection
2 Willow Road, London
NT 113253
Summary
Red coloured Accotile flooring in Ensuite Bathroom. The tiles are laid throughout the floor of the ensuite bathroom and into the partitioned toilet. The tiles extend up the wall of the bathroom between the bath and toilet and behind the bidet by a height of 3.5 tiles in line with the side of the bathtub around which the long side and end are also tiled. Curved tiles are used as a border to the flooring which extend slightly up the remaining walls of the bathroom. Floor tiles largely of square format except where cut to fit as well as curved border sections.Floor tiles of composite material of asphaltic binder with fillers and mineral pigments. Asbestos is present as a filling material in the floor tiles and backing material onto which the tiles are laid.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Ernö Goldfinger (1902-1987) and Ursula Ruth Blackwell, Mrs Ernö Goldfinger (d.1991), formally acquired in 1994.