The Angus McBean photograph that was flashed on the screen of the Academy Cinema to promote the adjoining Pavilion Cafe
The Lost Pavilion
The Pavilion Restaurant in Oxford Street designed by Angus McBean in 1951.
As it appeared in the May, 1988 issue of The World of Interiors.
As it appeared in the May, 1988 issue of The World of Interiors.
Now playing: Jean Michel Jarre - Touch To Remember
5 comments:
I remember these photographs when they first appeared in WoI - an astonishing twenty-three years ago.
Was it not McBean that played all the characters in the photograph?
What a wonderful space! Would love to experience the anbiance!
Blue - No, it was his partner David Ball. Ball also helped with the interior.
DT - it was proposed for conservation as an example of a Festival of Britain interior, but sadly the proposal was not supported.
I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite element, but I am wild about the pineapple-in-urn finials! __ The Devoted Classicist
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