Rodney Street Masquerade

The naïve line quality in this design accurately references the pair of vintage, mechanical apple-picking toys that inspired it. They are small pieces amongst a huge collection of mostly twentieth century artefacts now cared for by the National Trust at The Hardmans’ House in Rodney Street, Liverpool. An elegant Georgian property, it is authentically preserved in its 1950s state having served as both home and busy photographic studio for the prestigious portrait photographer Edward Chambré Hardman and his wife, business partner and fellow photographer, Margaret.