BUCKINGHAM

Property of Clive Morgan Buckingham

Forster (E.M.)

E.M. Forster’s chaise longue

An Edwardian button upholstered chaise longue in floral patterned red velvet damask, the legs on castors

Height 76cm, Length 180cm, Width 80cm (approximate)

With an accompanying letter of provenance from the vendor stating “the chaise longue upholstered in red velvet belonged to the novelist E.M. Forster. It was bequeathed to me on the death of my grandmother May Buckingham in 1997. Robert and May Buckingham were lifelong friends of E.M. Forster, and Forster regularly visited and stayed with them from the 1930s until his death in 1970.

Over the years Forster gifted many items to the Buckingham family, including books, pictures and furniture, including the chaise longue which was used in the lounge by the family both in London and then later in Coventry.” (Clive Morgan Buckingham, typed letter signed, dated 14 November 2023)

The chaise comes with a later fitted blue patterned gold fringed cover.

Provenance: E.M. Forster (1879-1970); gifted to Robert and May Buckingham; thence by direct descent to the present owner