Tag Archives: Art Deco

Looking up the staircase

The De La Warr Pavilion staircase featured in a post earlier this year (click here to view it). We were back there again last week on a glorious summer’s day and I was irresistibly drawn back to the staircase that … Continue reading

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The DLWP Staircase

DLWP is short for De La Warr Pavilion – an Art Deco styled building in Bexhill-on-Sea on the South Coast of England. Built in the 1930s, the driver behind the building was the 9th Earl De La Warr (Mayor of … Continue reading

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Tate Britain’s staircase

One of the by-products of preparing a new talk for a Camera Club is that it very often involves a rummage in the archive to find images that help illustrate a point and which have never before ‘surfaced’. And today’s … Continue reading

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The De La Warr Pavilion

The De La Warr Pavilion, in Bexhill-on-Sea on the SE coast of England, was probably the first Modernist Building to be built in the Art Deco style in the UK. It’s named after Herbrand Sackville 9th Earl De La Warr … Continue reading

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The Face in the Window

Today’s image comes from Michelin House on the Fulham Road in Chelsea, London. I was on my way from the V&A Museum to the Saatchi Gallery on the King’s Road, Chelsea and quite by accident found myself facing this famous … Continue reading

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