Designer Collection (page 10)

A portrait of the costume designer Gordon Conway, 1927 1927

New York Worlds Fair - Ford Motor Building at night
New York Worlds Fair, USA - Ford Motor Building at night - designed by Walter Teague. Date: 1939

Gertrude Jekylls Garden fork and lawn shears placed on an old mill grindstone at Munstead Wood (Grade I listed), the home of influential British horticulturist, garden designer

The War Memorial at Busbridge, Surrey designed by Lutyens
The War Memorial at Busbridge, near Godalming, Surrey designed by Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944). Date: 2016

The Church of Santa Maria Novella - Florence, Italy - " perhaps the purest and most elegant example of Tuscan Gothic Art in existence." Begun in 1278 on the site of anther edifice

A garden party frock by Lucile, 1920
A garden party frock for 1920 by Lucile. 1920

Lee White wearing costumes designed by Reville
American actress and entertainer, Lee White, posing in a variety of fantastic costumes designed by Reville for her tour of Australia in 1920. 1920

Norman Hartnell
Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell (1901 - 1979), British couturier and favourite fashion designer of the Queen and Queen Mother. Pictured in a series of photographs taken by Peter North of famous figures

Vionnet gown
A flame coloured Vionnet gown from Olga Fernande worn by Miss Leonora Corbett. Interesting waist embellishment, repeated at the cuffs of the dress sleeves. Date: 1933

Hammersmith Bridge over the River Thames, West London - note the Horse-drawn Harrods Delivery van - designed by the noted civil engineer Sir Joseph Bazalgette. Date: circa 1904

Madame Idare, fashion designer
Madame Idare, British fashion designer. Date: 1929

The fashion designer Ulick
Captain Ulick Brown, fashion designer and presiding genius of Ulick Ltd in New Burlington Street. Date: 1929

The fashion designer Isobel
Isobel, a leading British fashion designer of the 1920s and 30s with an shop on Regent Street. She designed all clothes herself and employed only British staff

Armstrongs design for a chain bridge across the River Avon
Mr William Armstrongs design for a chain bridge across the River Avon from St. Vincents Rock to Leigh Down. This was an alternative design for the Clifton Suspension bridge

Monsieur Paquin, husband of Jeanne Paquin, fashion designer
Isidore Ren頊 acob, known as M. Paquin, husband of Jeanne Paquin, pioneering fashion designer and couturier. The pair married in 1891 and built their business, the House of Paquin

Oliver Messel, 1940
Costume designer Oliver Messel alongside a model at his studio in Yeomans Row. The model pictured is wearing the costume of Jocasta in The Infernal Machine

Anna Zinkeisen, 1928
Artist Anna Katrina Zinkeisen (1901-1976) who had recently married Captain Guy Heseltine. 1928

Cathleen Mann, 1940
Artist and costume designer Cathleen Mann, Lady Queensbury, alongside Rosaleen Forbes. Both women worked in the Mechanised Transport Corps during the War. 1940

Bristol - Clifton Suspension Bridge from the Riverbank Date: 1936

Leslie Howard, Adrian Brunel and Georges Perinal
Leslie Howard (1893-1943), English actor, with Georges Perinal (1897-1965), French cinematographer, and Adrian Brunel (1892-1958), English film director and screenwriter

Gordon Conway, Kitty Austin and Graham Cutts
The fashion designer, Gordon Conway, with Kitty Austin who she has dressed for Graham Cutts film, The Return of the Rat. She decorated the ladies in the cabaret scene using designs which are painted

Gordon Conway (1894-1956). Prolific costume designer for the theatre and film, and contributor to magazines such as " The Tatler" and " Eve". Date: 1930

Original accessories designed by Gordon Conway
Original accessories designed by the American costume designer, Gordon Conway. The shoe is trimmed with satin and has brocade to match the bag; the clasps of the bag are of diamonds and platinum

Cecil Aldin in his studio
Cecil Aldin (1870-1935), sporting artist, illustrator and Master of the South Berkshire Foxhounds. Known particularly for his pictures of animals, especially dogs

William Tells Memorial, Altdorf, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
William Tells Memorial built by Richard Kissling (unveiled in 1895) at Altdorf, Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. Date: circa 1905

Goodwood fashions by Gordon Conway
On the left, a lace and georgette dress in champagne beige, with a jacket generously trimmed in fur. On the right, a printed chiffon frock available in many colour schemes

Barcelona, Spain - Fountain at Great Universal Exhibition
Barcelona, Spain - The Magic Fountain of Montjuic at the International Exhibition (Exposicion Internacional de Barcelona) - located in the Plaza de Carles Buigas, in the Sants-Montjuic. Date: 1929

D Orsay Gate at the Exposition Internationale, Paris
D Orsay Gate at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris - designed by Louis-Hippolyte Boileau (1878-1948). Date: 1925

Mrs James Beck in a Schiaparelli suit
Mrs James Beck, socialite and daughter of one of the famous Wyndham sisters painted by Sargent, pictured in a black suit made of amusing quilted material by Schiaparelli

Claire Luce in Schiaparelli
Actress Claire Luce (1903-1989), actress and entertainer, photographed in a Schiaparelli evening dress worn in the film, Vintage Wine

Victorian Scrap -- Milliner. late 19th century

Roosevelt Memorial, London
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) Memorial, Grosvenor Square, London. Paid for through donations by the British Public

Hercules Linton, designer of Cutty Sark
Hercules Linton (1837-1900), Scottish surveyor, designer, shipbuilder, best known as the designer of the Cutty Sark. Date: C.1865

Hildred, a mannequin for Lucile
One of Luciles famous models. Lady Lucy Duff Gordon (aka Lucile) was famous for employing a band of mannequins at her salon and for introducing the mannequin parade for her customers

Margot, lead mannequin for Lucile
Margot, the chief mannequin at the salon of Lucile, aka Lady Lucy Duff Gordon in the 1920s. One newspaper described her thus

Bern, Switzerland - Monument de l Union Postale Universelle
The UPU (Union postale universelle / Universal Postal Union) monument (Weltpost Denkmal) in Bern designed by Rene de Saint-Marceaux (1909), which inspired the logo of the organisation

Paquin evening dress, 1938
An evening dress by Paquin in black net and lace, full skirted, longer at the back than the front. The frock is completed by a large taffeta bow of an elusive petunia shade. Date: 1938

Joan Jordan creating The Tatler Xmas number cover, 1950
Danish-born artist, Joan Jordan, at work creating a cloth-cut montage design for the front cover of The Tatler, 1950. The finished cover is picture number 11067905. Date: 1950

Jacques Griffe outfit - and dog, 1950
Sally, the star mannequin of French designer, Jacques Griffe, hides a little dog in the vast pocket of a tightly belted beige wool jacket

Vincenzo Lancia - Italian Motor Engineer and pilot
Vincenzo Lancia (18811937) - an Italian pilot, engineer and founder of the Motor Company Lancia. Pictured in a Fiat Motorcar Date: circa 1908

Lunch at Reddish House
Cecil Beaton sitting at a lunch table with Miss Davies, his mother and Mr. Hal Burton, in his home at Reddish House, Broadchalke, near Salisbury. Date: 1951

Fete Champetre at Ashcombe House
Page showing a number of photographs from the Fete Champetre at Ashcome House, home of Cecil Beaton house in Wiltshire. Date: 1937

Dolly Tree - English Costume Designer and Actress
Dolly Tree (1899-1962) - English Costume and Poster Designer and Actress. At the time this photograph was published, it was noted that Tree had done all of the work for the Wylie

Jean Peron shows off two of his couture creations
At his salon on Regent Street, London, fashion designer Jean Peron shows off two of his beautiful couture creations to Mrs Philip Maufe

1960s interior designers with their work
Designer David Davies and his collaborator, Nell, pose with their latest work - a series of hand-decorated antique printing blocks

Juan de la Cosa (1460-1509). Spanish navigator and cartographer. Portrait

Teddy Tinling on the French Riviera
Cuthbert Collingwood " Ted" Tinling (1910-1990) - English tennis player and fashion designer pictured with Miss Ryan

Leon Bakst
Russian painter and costume/ theatrical designer, Leon Samoilovitch Bakst (18661924). Pictured in The Sketch at the time he held an exhibition of his costume designs at the Fine Art Society

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