EDINBURGH.- Rosehall House in Sutherland had, until recently, lain abandoned for more than 50 years, but in the 1920s it was full of life. It was there that the owner of the 700-acre estate, Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster, and one of the wealthiest men in the world, whiled away the summers with his lover, the great French couturière Coco Chanel. Finding the house too gloomy for her tastes, Chanel set about a major refurbishment. Among other changes – completely re-wallpapering the house, for example – she commissioned new, lighter, furniture, some of which features in this year’s Scottish Home sale at Bonhams Edinburgh on Thursday 20 October. One of the pieces, a limed oak Tuscan table estimated at £800-1,200 was modelled on Sir Robert Lorimer’s designs for furniture at Balmenno Castle in Perthshire.

Other Rosehall House furniture commissioned by Coco Chanel in the sale includes:

• A set of four limed oak 'Tuscan' open armchairs after Sir Robert Lorimer. Estimate: £1,500-2,000.

• A limed oak octagonal topped centre table in the manner of Sir Robert Lorimer. Estimate: £600-800.

Other highlights of the sale include:

• Millennium Kilt No. 2 Philabeg by the Scottish textile artist Jilli Blackwood. The work, which is made from wool, cotton velvet and silk, on steel hanger, is the second of Jilli Blackwood's kilts to be produced and the first to come to auction. It was made to meet the demand generated by Millennium Kilt No I created in 1999 and exhibited to great acclaim at The Victoria and Albert Museum. The present work has been created through an intricate and painstaking process of weaving and embroidering, but also, in the artist's words, 'un-embroidering' which involves the removal of previously worked up areas, this method leaves impressions and memories on the fabric. This unique process creates a vividly colourful and highly textured and tactile surface. Estimate: £2,000-3,000

• A fine Glasgow shipbuilder's scale model of the cargo ship 'Gujarat'. The SS Gujarat was the first Harland & Wolff ship to be built for Andrew Weir, delivered by the Govan Shipyard in 1923. It was a motor cargo-passenger ship on the Indian-African Line travelling from Calcutta, Rangoon, Madras, via Colombo to Mozambique & Southern Africa. Estimate: £8,000-12,000.

• A very rare Jacobite colour twist glass, circa 1760. The bell bowl is decorated with a six-petalled rose with two buds, one partially open. This is a reference to James VIII of Scotland, the Stuart claimant to the British crown and his two sons Charles and Henry all three of whom lived in Continental Europe. James – known popularly at the Old Pretender – led the unsuccessful Jacobite Rising of 1715. The 1745 Jacobite Rising of his son Charles – The Young Pretender better known as Bonnie Prince Charles – fared no better coming to a catastrophic end at Culloden the following year. The glass would have been used to toast the ‘King over the water’. Estimate: £4,000-6,000.

• The original masthead for "The Scotsman" newspaper used from the launch in 1817 until 1835. Estimate: £500-700.

• Balmoral by HRH King Charles III. Signed and in pencil ‘Charles 2001’. Estimate: £400-600.