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Drawing

1929-1930 (made)
Artist/Maker
Chermayeff, Serge (artist)

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
Interiors
Drawings
Designs
Object type
Drawing
Materials and techniques
pencil, gouache, paper, drawing
Paper
Pencil
Gouache
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
    Cambridge Theatre
    London
    Bibliographic reference
    Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972
    Collection
    Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
    Accession number
    CIRC.615-1972

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    Record createdJune 30, 2009
    Record URL
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