Designer Collection (page 4)

Advert for Rosebank Fabrics, available to order through local stores and furnishers. Date: 1954

Averil Streatfield (1911-1977) is here seen modelling a crepe romain gown and a coat bordered with grey fox, by designer Norman Hartnell (1901-1979). Date: 1932

Film studio London street setting, Welwyn Garden City
British film studio London street setting at Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, for Anthony Asquith's production of Princess Priscilla's Fortnight

Art deco lady with handbag, long coat and high heels
Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi was born in 1879 and died in 1949. He lived for many years in Paris working as a caricature cartoonist

Toshusai Sharaku image. He was a Japanese ukiyo-e print designer, known for his portraits of kabuki actors. Neither his true name nor the dates of his birth or death are known

Henri Farman - Flight of One Kilometre 1908
British-French pilot Henri Farman winning the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of 50, 000 francs at Issy-les-Moulineaux, France. For the successful flight of an aircraft heavier than air

Henri Farman (1874 - 1958), British-French aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer. Appearing on the front cover of ?The Illustrated London News

British Design Exhibition in Moscow, Soviet Union, arranged by the Council of Industrial Design and the Central Office of Information

Victor Stiebel, British fashion designer
Victor Frank Stiebel (1907-1976), South African-born British fashion designer. Date: circa 1950s

Carla Thorneycroft, philanthropist and patron of the arts
Carla Thorneycroft, Baroness Thorneycroft (1914-2007), formerly Countess Carla Roberti, born Carla Maria Concetta Francesca Malagola Cappi

William Morris, artist, writer, publisher and socialist
William Morris (1834-1896), English textile designer, artist, writer, publisher and socialist, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement

Noel Coward and Gladys Calthrop, 1937
Noel Coward (1899 - 1973), the English playwright, actor and composer, and Gladys Calthrop, artist and stage designer. Date: 1937

Robert Stephenson (1803 - 1859), English civil engineer and designer of locomotives. Montage of some of bridges that Stephenson had engineered in his lifetime

Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell (1901 - 1979), British couturier and favourite fashion designer of the Queen and Queen Mother. Photographed by Madame Yevonde. Date: c.1930

The Three Graces on Liverpools Pier Head (Waterfront) (from left): The Liver Building, The Cunard Building and The Port of Liverpool Building - Liverpool, Merseyside. Date: circa 1936

Dewey Triumphal Arch and Colonnade, Madison Square, New York City, NY, USA - erected for a parade in honor of Admiral George Dewey celebrating his victory at the Battle of Manila Bay in

Three Child Faces - From sketches by Paul Helleu (1859-1927). A French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer

Piano Lesson
Ellen et sa Grandmere. From a drypoint by Paul Helleu (1859-1927). A French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer

Van Hoytema
Morning by Theodorus van Hoytema (1863-1917), a Dutch lithographer, illustrator and graphic designer, best-known for his book covers and calendars

A portrait of the painter and costume designer Doris Zinkeisen, 1926 Date: 1926

A sketch of a dinner or evening gown from the New York fashion modiste Madame Sophie Rosenberg, 1924 Date: 1924

A sketch of an evening gown from the New York fashion modiste Madame Sophie Rosenberg, 1924 Date: 1924

A portrait of the New York fashion modiste Madame Sophie Rosenberg, 1924 Date: 1924

A sketch by costume designer Mabel E. t for a
A sketch by costume designer Mabel E. Johnston for a spanish themed dress, New York, 1929 Date: 1929

A portrait of costume designer Mabel E. Johnston, New York, 1929 Date: 1929

Two costumes sketches by Mabel E. Johnston and Charles LeMaire, for Broadway, 1931. Johnstons creation is for a gay tap number. LeMaires creation is for Nell O Day in Fine and Dandy. Date: 1931

Dressing Room Footlights dedicated to the costume designer Dolly Tree, 1931 with instructions of how to make a little French peasant dress Date: 1929

George Fyffe Christie (1872-1951). Scottish designer of comic postcards, illustrator and watercolourist. Date: circa 1927

Miss Leslie Blanch by Frieda Harris
Miss Leslie Blanch (1904 - 2007), theatrical designer, depicted with her pet dog in a painting by Frieda Harris (1877 - 1962), the wife of Sir Percy Harris MP

Syrie Maugham
Article in The Sphere by Derek Patmore profiling interior designer Syrie Maugham, wife of the novelist W. Somerset Maugham

A suite of Andalusian dances - Cuadro Flamenco performed during the Interlude of the performance of Diaghilevs Ballet Russes at the Princes Theatre, London

Striking costumes designed by Victor Stiebel for the musical, Music in the Air, starring Mary Ellis. Date: 1933

Gothic-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Carved wooden pelmet, velvet lambrequin, wool and silk satin curtain, damask wall hangings. Planche 7. Croisee Gothique

Roman-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Valance sheet, lambrequin drapes, brocatelle curtains. Planche 6. Croisee Style Roman. Cantonniere drap, application meme etoffe

Arab-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Two-tone satin valance with gold embroidery, striped wool and silk curtains, harem screen. Planche 5. Croisee Style Arabe

Japanese-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Red lacquer wood frame with satin lambrequin, satin curtains, wooden mask, embroidered silk wall hangings, vase with ikebana. Planche 4

Chinese-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Gilt pelmet, damask valance, satin curtains with gold and silver decoration, embroidered silk wall decorations. Planche 3. Croisee Genre Chinois

Russian-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Canvas lambrequin and curtains, silk window screen, armchair. Planche 20. Croisee Russe. Lambrequin toile ou serge, ton creme, applications de laine

Neo-Greco-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Gilded pelmet, decorated cream drapes, satin curtain, and painted wall decoration. Planche 2. Croisee Neo-Grecque

King Louis XIV-style wall hanging. Satin valance, silk curtains, window with armchair. Planche 14. Croisee Louis XIV. Cantonniere satin, contre-fond velours, applications soie vieil or et argent

King Louis XIII-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Velvet lambrequin and drapes, silk curtains. Planche 11. Croisee Louis XIII

Renaissance-style wall hanging, circa 1900. Wooden pelmet, velvet drapes with silk embrodery, damask wall hanging. Planche 10. Croisee Style Renaissance

Luxury Egyptian-style wall hangings, circa 1900. Painted wood and lacquer pelmet, satin lambrequin, velvet curtain, decoration with ancient Egyptian flower motifs. Planche 1. Croisee Genre Egyptien

Military Staff and Aides-de-Camp in Queen Victoria s
Military Staff and Aides-de-Camp in Queen Victorias coronation parade. Equerry of the Crown Stable, Sir George Augustus Quentin, Queens Gentleman Rider, Deputy Adjutant General

Woman in fancy dress costume as an Aquarium
Woman in costume as an Aquarium with dress decorated with fish, coral, seaweed and shells, for a masquerade ball. Costume designed by M. Robin. Handcoloured lithograph published in Paris, 1880s

Marguerite Ugalde, French mezzo-soprano, as Falka in the operetta Le Droit d Ainesse by Chassaigne, Leterrier and Vanloo, 1883. Handcoloured lithograph by Chatiniere published by Martinet, Paris, 1883

Women in costume as Bebe designed by Alfred Grevin
Woman in costume as Bebe designed by the caricaturist Alfred Grevin. Handcoloured lithograph by published by Martinet, Paris, 1880s

Emilie Mily Meyer, French soprano, 1879
Emilie Mily Meyer, French soprano, as Jacqueline in the operetta La Petite Mademoiselle (1879) at the Theatre de la Renaissance

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