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Decoration
Exhibition buildings for the Sixth Congress of the International Union of Architects, South Bank, London: the main hall with mobile by Kenneth Martin and mural by Mary Martin
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NOTES: These were temporary exhibition buildings designed by Theo Crosby. The mural is by Mary Martin.
Eaton Hall, Cheshire: room between the great drawing room and saloon
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NOTES: Commissioned by the 3rd Earl Grosvenor (later the 1st Duke of Westminster from 1874), this lavish mansion was designed to display his enormous wealth. It comprised 150 bedrooms, massive stables, huge kennels and a chapel. Deemed too costly and large to maintain by the trustees of the Westminster estate, the mansion was demolished in 1961, leaving only the chapel and the stable block. A smaller house was built on the edge of the footprint of the old building in 1967.
Cathedral of Notre Dame, Ile de la Cite, Paris: the eagle sculpture on the grand balustrade of the great gallery
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NOTES: Construction on the cathedral began in 1163 and was completed c.1345. Jean-Baptiste Lassus and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc were responsible for the restoration of Notre Dame in 1841-1863.
