Property News · July 12, 2016

Mollie Evans obituary


Antique dealer whose eye for ‘primitive’ pieces proved a revelation for customers in the late 1960s and early 70sMollie Evans, who has died aged 94, was one of the most influential British antique dealers of the latter part of the 20th century. With her innate “eye”, she discerned whole areas others had missed or failed to appreciate. These, at the end of the 1960s, when Evans began dealing, included things “primitive” and humble in origin, naive and folk art, provincial furniture, and farm and kitchen paraphernalia, which trickled from her small Surrey shop into appreciative homes, the pages of interior decoration and “lifestyle” publications, and the storyboards of television producers. By the 1990s, what Mollie had started from enthusiasm and love had surged into a flood of “country” style.She was born Mary Isobel Simpson, at Eamont Bridge, Cumberland, to a large family long-established in farming. Mollie grew up there and in nearby Penrith, bright and curious, a bit of a rebel against her pretty, conventional mother, Mary, and close to a sensitive father, Robert, isolated by wounds and deafness contracted in the first world war. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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