Stella Tennant, Isabella Cawdor, Sotheby’s Team on British Art Show

LONDON — Stella Tennant and Isabella Cawdor have become the latest British creatives to demonstrate their love of fine art, working with Sotheby’s on a show of mid-century works that will be auctioned next month in London. Tennant and Cawdor, creative directors of Holland & Holland, the upscale outdoor pursuits brand owned by Chanel, have picked works by modern British artists including Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, Ivon Hitchens and Barbara Hepworth. The exhibition will run from Nov. 8 to 13 at Holland & Holland on Bruton Street in London, with the auction slated for Nov. 19 and 20 at Sotheby’s on New Bond Street. The women chose works that underline the play between landscape and abstraction, landscape being a major consideration in designing for Holland & Holland. The works will be sold at auction as part of Sotheby’s Modern & Post-War British Art sales. Ben Nicholson’s 1949 work, “Still Life Blue.”  “Every collection at Holland and Holland starts with the weather and the landscape — the clothes we make are designed to work in the landscape, both visually and practically. The tweeds in particular are inspired directly by the landscape and the tweed mill archives, often going back over a century, show the endless innovation and

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