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MARS Group Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London: screen showing a photographic medley of architectural examples from all over the world
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NOTES: MARS was an acronym for Modern Architectural Research.
Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent: the Great Staircase showing one of the square newels surmounted by a heraldic Sackville leopard
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NOTES: The house was built by Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, between 1456 and 1486. It passed into Royal possession in 1537 during the Dissolution. In 1566, Elizabeth I presented the house and estate to her cousin Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, who substantially remodelled the medieval palace between 1603 and 1608. Richard Dungan, the King's Plasterer, was responsible for the patterned ceiling and Paul Isaacson, the Master Painter, for the strap-work and trompe-l'oeil adorning this Jacobean addition.
Post Office Tower (now BT Tower), 60 Cleveland Street, London: a waiting area
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NOTES: Eric Bedford was the Chief Architect at the Ministry of Public Works (MOPBW) responsible for the design of the tower.
Electricity showrooms, Regent Street, London
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NOTES: This photograph comes from the archive of Sir Anthony Wakefield Cox (1915-1993). The showroom was designed by Maxwell Fry with photomurals by Moholy-Nagy.
Swedish Pavilion, 1939 World's Fair, Queens, New York: 'Sweden Speaks' exhibition in the front of the pavilion expressing 'present achievements and future aspirations'
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NOTES: This photograph comes from the archive of Sir Anthony Wakefield Cox (1915-1993).
Swedish Pavilion, 1939 World's Fair, Queens, New York
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NOTES: This photograph comes from the archive of Sir Anthony Wakefield Cox (1915-1993).
Electricity Showroom, Cannon Street, City of London
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NOTES: The photomurals are by Moholy-Nagy.
MARS Group Exhibition, New Burlington Galleries, London: the form and purpose platform and the garden landscape corner
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NOTES: MARS was an acronym for Modern Architectural Research.