Vintage Liberty of London Chopping Board in Ianthe Print

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Offered is a 1980s Liberty of London chopping board in their iconic Ianthe print. The reverse side has a pine … Read more Offered is a 1980s Liberty of London chopping board in their iconic Ianthe print. The reverse side has a pine wood effect design. There is a small hole in the handle for wall hanging, and the source material seems to be melamine, making it resistant to scratches and utensil marks, as well as easy to clean.

It measures 9.75" wide, 8.75" tall main body, 11.625" to handle, and .25" deep.

From the Liberty of London website on the pattern history:
"The best-known pattern was French in origin: Ianthe, an Art Nouveau design created by R. Beauclair in 1900, was possibly inspired by violets. It was afterwards redrawn by David Haward’s studio and has been produced in colourways from shocking pink to ochre and elephant grey. In its original colourway of mid-blue, burgundy and purple, it is a signature Liberty fabric: arresting and venerable, unusual and reassuringly familiar.
‘We flatter ourselves that we have created a new “English” period,’ Llewellyn noted of decorating trends in 1898. He may have had in mind designs such as Lindsay Butterfield’s Hydrangeas of 1896, with its dense, all-over pattern of flowerheads and Morris & Co-inspired foliage. Even at the outset, Liberty’s use of floral motifs was associated with a quintessential Englishness that its products have retained.
The company would prove both advocate and beneficiary of the Art Nouveau movement—sinuous natural forms translated easily into fabric and wallpaper patterns. Liberty’s current head of archiving, Anna Buruma, attributes the appeal of the designs to their ‘innovative and quirky’ qualities. In the first decades of the 20th century, those qualities were realised to the full in a series of bold, floral fabrics that Liberty designers of the 1960s would successfully recolour and rebrand as the Lotus Collection, an aspect of Swinging Sixties cool tinged by nostalgia." See less