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About this object

  • ID:

    72.265

  • Production date:

    1928

  • Location:

    In Store

  • This lift was one of several installed in Selfridges department store in 1928. The interior metal panels depicting cranes and known as Les Cigognes d'Alsace were designed by Edgar William Brandt (1886-1960). The metalwork of the exterior screens with figures representing the signs of the zodiac was made by the Birmingham Guild of Architectural & Decorative Metalworkers and incorporate the work of Walter Gilbert and his assistant Louis Weingartner, formerly of the Bromsgrove Guild of Metalworkers.  < ...Read more

  • Measurements

    H 3460 mm; L 5200 mm; D 2090 mm (to back wall); WT 1400 kg (overall)

  • Materials

    bronze; plywood; iron

  • Last Updated

    2024-03-14

FURTHER INFORMATION
  • NUMBER OF ITEMS

    1

  • STATUS

    permanent collection

  • COPYRIGHT HOLDER

    digital image copyright Museum of London

  • Related place

    City of Westminster

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