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'''NUWAYS''' was an apparently quite brief range of [[Bassett-Lowke]] branded dollhouse furniture that had its own catalogue in 1931.
'''NUWAYS''' was an (apparently quite brief) range of [[Bassett-Lowke]] branded dollhouse furniture that had its own catalogue in 1931. The museum has some of this range in its collection, and will be creating a listing as part of its new 25th anniversary dollhouse furniture display in 2016.


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Logo for the Bassett-Lowke NUWAYS range of dollhouse furniture, showing a silhouette of three Charles Rennie Mackintosh-styled chairs and table against a slightly oriental-looking orange disc. The image above has been redrawn and "cleaned up" from the original version

Logo for the Bassett-Lowke NUWAYS range of dollhouse furniture, showing a silhouette of three Charles Rennie Mackintosh-styled chairs and table against a slightly oriental-looking orange disc. The image above has been redrawn and "cleaned up" from the original version [image info]

NUWAYS was an (apparently quite brief) range of Bassett-Lowke branded dollhouse furniture that had its own catalogue in 1931. The museum has some of this range in its collection, and will be creating a listing as part of its new 25th anniversary dollhouse furniture display in 2016.

Theme

The NUWAYS range was fairly restricted, and seemed to be based on W.J. Bassett-Lowke's own tastes in modern furniture design, to the extent that the name of the range – Nuways – appears to be based on the name of WJ's own 1926 house New Ways, designed by Peter Behrens with 1916 furniture by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The extent to which this may have been a personal project of W.J. Bassett-Lowke is suggested by the Nuways logo. The very small version printed on the catalogue (apparently in two variations) is slightly crude, with the chair-detailing oddly asymmetrical, and while the person who drew the logo seems to have been happy with the first five "angular" letters, the "S" seemed to give them more trouble.

It's our current best guess that the logo might have been drawn by WJ himself.

Manufacture

As with many Bassett-Lowke product ranges, the Nuways range seems to have been manufactured by outside sources for the company. Our example of the rather nice fireplace is stamped "foreign" on the back in purple ink, and we're currently pretty sure that it's a piece manufactured by Kibri of Germany.

As we go though our dollhouse furniture collection in preparation for the 2016 dollhouse furniture display, we'll continue to research further.

Acknowledgements

We're indebted to our friends at 78 Derngate, W.J. Bassett-Lowke's Charles Rennie Mackintosh-furnished house in Northampton, for sending us a colour photocopy of the 1931 "Nuways" catalogue from their files. This has been invaluable for research and identification of the B-L dollhouse furniture pieces in our collections.

See also:

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