Poster
ca. 1970 (made)
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Poster for Gallery Five wall panels, black background with 30 images of interiors, containing combinations of Heal's furniture, clothes, flowers, pets and Gallery five panels. Lettering in white.
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| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph |
| Brief description | Poster advertising Gallery Five wall panels, probably designed by Jan Michel Piénkowski, issued Gallery Five Ltd, London, ca. 1970 |
| Physical description | Poster for Gallery Five wall panels, black background with 30 images of interiors, containing combinations of Heal's furniture, clothes, flowers, pets and Gallery five panels. Lettering in white. |
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| Historical context | In the 1960s, large and expensive Pop art and Art Nouveau reproductions became fashionable on the walls of the metropolitan flats and bed-sitting rooms of the young. The wall panels promoted in this poster-cum-catalogue for Piénkowski's Gallery Five (Established in 1961) stem from this trend but are aimed at a slightly more mature and affluent market. Thirty fashionable interiors and 'lifestyles' are assembled from imaginative combinations of Heal's furniture, clothes, flowers, pets and panels. The 'Pop' interiors feature informal, soft furnishings or moulded chairs and tables .... [Kevin Edge, 'British Design at Home', p.157] |
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| Accession number | E.1593-1974 |
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| Record created | February 10, 2000 |
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