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House Tornado

Record Sleeve
1988 (published)
Artist/Maker
Beggars Group, Beggars Banquet Records (4AD) (record label)
23 Envelope (design agency)
Oliver, Vaughan (art director)
Ohtake, Shinro (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (published)

Card cover sleeve for the 12" long-playing record 'House Tornado' recorded by the group Throwing Muses for 4AD. The designs of both sides are created from elements of collage and watercolours by Shinro Ohtake. The front of the cover is lettered with 'throwing muses : house tornado' in dark-green in a silver bar along the top of the right-hand edge.

Object details

Categories
Labels & Packaging
Music
Object type
Record Sleeve
TitleHouse Tornado
Brief description
Cover sleeve for the 12" long-playing record 'House Tornado' recorded by the group Throwing Muses. Design by 23 Envelope, using artwork by Shinro Ohtake. Published by 4AD, Great Britain, 1988.
Physical description
Card cover sleeve for the 12" long-playing record 'House Tornado' recorded by the group Throwing Muses for 4AD. The designs of both sides are created from elements of collage and watercolours by Shinro Ohtake. The front of the cover is lettered with 'throwing muses : house tornado' in dark-green in a silver bar along the top of the right-hand edge.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'throwing muses : house tornado' (Lettered in dark-green, within a silver bar, along the top of the right-hand edge of the front of the cover is.)
  • The back of the sleeve is lettered (with the appearance of hand-writing) with the tracklisting and 'Produced by Gary Smith / Engineered by Paul Kolderie / Recorded at Fort Apache'. Below, it also gives the 4AD logo, 'cad 802' and 'printed in england'.
Subjects depicted
Collage
Figures
Associated objects
Other number
CAD 802 - Record label's number
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.278-1989

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Record createdDecember 9, 2008
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O177363/house-tornado-record-sleeve-oliver-vaughan/
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