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Sir Paul Smith cinema seats from Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema up for auction!

Arthur Johnson & Sons’ auction is offering movie buffs a chance to own a piece of cinema history in the form of two love seats from Nottingham’s Broadway Cinema.

 

What’s more, the chairs are the personal work of Sir Paul Smith, a Nottingham son and one of the world’s greatest fashion designers.

The Broadway is almost as famous as Sir Paul himself. The designer is a long-time patron of the picture-house and created the interior of Screen 4 in his own iconic style back in 2006.

The public and movie press were more than impressed and Broadway soon earned the accolade ‘the smartest cinema in the world’ from Total Film magazine.

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Sir Paul Smith cinema seats

The journal praised its ‘deliciously dapper chocolate, multi-colour striped love seats’, and ranked Broadway right alongside world-renowned cinemas including La Pagode, Paris and Mann’s Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles.

The seats are now synonymous with the cinema and most will be repurposed within the building as part of current renovations. However, Broadway is a charity, and to help raise funds it’s put two sets of two seats up for auction, so this truly is a unique opportunity.

Broadway is getting ready for a very welcome reopening on the 25th of September, so it won’t be long before you can go along and enjoy one of Nottingham’s best destinations.

Meanwhile, if a unique chance to make these iconic chairs a part of your home sounds too good to miss, you can find more details and sign up on the auctioneer’s website from Wednesday 16th September.

The auction takes the form of a live webcast on Saturday morning at 10 am. And don’t forget your popcorn!

Link to auction here: https://www.arthurjohnson.co.uk/catalogue/lot/f191892f6f593f7d7f36f61a744bfa05/1d509dfe86f02da2d7cbda445ef6ff1f/the-saturday-auctions-19th-september-2020-lot-200/

Find out more about Broadway’s exiting reopening here:

https://www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/back-broadway

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