Betty Joel: Lost Art Deco icon, curator tour and talk
Curator Tour of ‘Art Deco Designer Betty Joel’ Exhibition at Olympia Auctions
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Start time/finish time: 4pm/5.30pm
Place: Olympia Auctions, 25 Blythe Road, London W14 0PD
Join us for a talk and tour of an exhibition on Betty Joel, a “forgotten” pioneer of Art Deco design. The talk will be given by exhibition curator Clive Stewart-Lockhart who is her great-nephew, an art expert and auctioneer and author of a definitive new book on Betty Joel.
As well as being known for individual pieces of household furniture, Betty designed and manufactured furniture for many of the iconic interiors of the era such as the Daily Express building, The Savoy, Hay’s Wharf and Coutts Bank, alongside private commissions for the likes of Winston Churchill, Earl Mountbatten and John Betjeman. Working with architects, particularly Harry Goodhart-Rendel, her craftsmen created acres of panelling and hundreds of doors for notable schemes in London and elsewhere.
Tea provided.
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Above: Portrait of Betty Joel in 1929. Copyright Stewart-Lockhart family archive.