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'A Day in the Life of the AA', Architectural Association, 34-36 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London: refreshments in the Ching's Head
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NOTES: The Ching's Head was a licnesed premises in the basement of the building which served food and refreshments from eleven in the morning until late in the evening.
Humphry Repton's tradecard: perspective view showing Repton and his assistant surveying a rural site for development with labourers shown moving earth from an area beside a lake
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NOTES: The card has been pasted on the front endpaper of Humphry Repton's 'Red Book' for Langley Park, Beckenham, London, one of the seats of Sir Peter Burrell, 1790. Repton would produce a Red Book for each of his proposed landscape schemes. These bound volumes of essays and watercolours served as persuasive marketing tools for his work and included both 'before' and 'after' views of the development sites utilising overlaid paper flaps to indicate Repton's suggested improvements.
Colour sketches for the decoration of the staff cafe ceiling in the Time Life building, New Bond Street, London: panel designs featuring arrow motifs and sketches of figures carrying trays of food
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NOTES: This drawing is part of a sketchbook containing designs made for decorative panels in the Time Life Building staff cafe. The designs were executed in laminate and were suspended above the seating area.
Colour sketches for the decoration of the staff cafe ceiling in the Time Life building, New Bond Street, London: panel designs featuring figures drinking and dining and sketched portraits of Cox's future wife, Jean
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NOTES: This drawing is part of a sketchbook containing designs made for decorative panels in the Time Life Building staff cafe. The designs were executed in laminate and were suspended above the seating area.
Illustration demonstrating the advantages of placing health, shopping, recreation, education, work and travel facilities within easy reach of the home
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NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1944 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Planning Your Neighbourhood: for home, for work, for play' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for the rebuilding of the heavily bombed London district of Shoreditch. The image shown here is page 4 of a bound presentation booklet for the project which was designed for the Air Ministry Directorate of Educational Services.
Montage of photographs demonstrating how good sanitation, diet, living and working conditions form the basis of good health: images include new housing blocks, a bathroom, employed men, factories, classrooms and well-nourished children eating at a table
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NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1943 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Health' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for improved housing, sanitation, working conditions, schools and diet. The image shown here was intended for use on an exhibition display board.
Montage of photographs demonstrating how poor sanitation, diet, living and working conditions cause ill health: images include slum dwellings, an outside toilet, factories, classrooms, unemployed men and two children - one healthy the other undernourished
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NOTES: During World War II Erno Goldfinger presented his vision of the reconstruction of a post war Britain in a series of exhibitions mounted for the Army Bureau of Current Affairs (A.B.C.A.). In the 1943 ABCA exhibition entitled 'Health' Goldfinger proposed a blueprint for improved housing, sanitation, working conditions, schools and diet. The image shown here was intended for use on an exhibition display board.
New London Bridge as seen from the banks of the River Thames at Billingsgate, City of London, with fishing boats in the foreground
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NOTES: This bridge of five stone arches was built in 1825-1831 upstream from the old bridge by Sir John Rennie to his late father's designs.