Folding stool
Category
Furniture
Date
1930 - 1969
Materials
Pine, steel, paint
Measurements
58.5 x 33 x 59 cm
Place of origin
Britain
Collection
Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318284
Summary
A set of blue-painted steel and pine folding steps or stool, British, mid-20th century, with rectangular pine top tread or seat supported on a tubular steel frame, a swiveling bar between two legs allowing an extra two ridged treads to be folded out from underneath the seat.
Provenance
Sunnycroft was built in 1880 for J.G. Wackrill, founder of the Shropshire Brewery. It was bought in the early 1890s by Mary Jane Slaney who proceeded to extend the house and lay out the grounds to create the estate that is there today. After Mary Slaney died in 1912 the property was bought by her brother-in-law John Vernon Thomas Lander. Three generations of the Lander family lived at Sunnycroft. J.V.T. Lander's granddaughter Joan bequeathed the estate to the National Trust in 1997.