Drawing
1929-1930 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
Preliminary pencil drawing with gouache colour, on paper. Shows design for the interior of the Cambridge Theatre Upper Circle Foyer, also presents a selection of three signatures of which the artists is one of them.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | pencil, gouache, paper, drawing |
| Brief description | By Serge Chermayeff: design for the interior of the Cambridge Theatre, London, c.1929-1930, preliminary pencil and gouache |
| Physical description | Preliminary pencil drawing with gouache colour, on paper. Shows design for the interior of the Cambridge Theatre Upper Circle Foyer, also presents a selection of three signatures of which the artists is one of them. |
| Dimensions | |
| Gallery label | Serge Chermayeff (b.1900)
Perspective of the Upper Circle Goyer,
Cambridge Theatre, London
British, 1929
Pencil, bodycolour and metallic
pigment
Chermayeff designed the interiors of the
foyers in the Cambridge Theatre which was
designed by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie.
Built on a very tight site at London's Seven
Dials the circulation spaces are small and
irregularly shaped. Here Chermayeff uses
a "Jazz Moderne" vocabulary to suggest
luxury and contemporaneity. Best known
for his Modernist Interiors for the BBC, and
for the De La Warr pavilion at Bexhill (with
Eric Mendelsohn), Chermayeff left England
in 1939 to teach architecture and design in
America.
Circ.615-1972 |
| Places depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.615-1972 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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