Category:Nuways dollhouse furniture (Bassett-Lowke)

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NUWAYS was an apparently quite brief range of Bassett-Lowke branded dollhouse furniture that had its own catalogue in 1931.

The 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.

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.

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