{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1034463"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1034463/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EH8869/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EH8869/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2010EH8869","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1034463/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1034463","accessionNumber":"CIRC.615-1972","objectType":"Drawing","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Preliminary pencil drawing with gouache colour, on paper. Shows design for the interior of the Cambridge Theatre Upper Circle Foyer, also presents a selection of three signatures of which the artists is one of them. ","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Chermayeff, Serge","id":"A6293"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"pencil","id":"x30347"},{"text":"gouache","id":"AAT70114"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing","id":"x32498"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"pencil, gouache, paper, drawing","categories":[{"text":"Interiors","id":"THES48933"},{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"},{"text":"Designs","id":"THES48968"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2010EH8869"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLE","id":"THES49657"},"free":"","case":"A","shelf":"238","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawings","id":"AAT33973"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1929-1930","earliest":"1929-01-01","latest":"1930-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"","value":"25.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"1972","earliest":"1972-01-01","latest":"1972-12-31"},"part":"","note":"Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972"},{"dimension":"","value":"34.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"1972","earliest":"1972-01-01","latest":"1972-12-31"},"part":"","note":"Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972"}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"By Serge Chermayeff: design for the interior of the Cambridge Theatre, London, c.1929-1930, preliminary pencil and gouache","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1972"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[{"text":"Cambridge Theatre","id":"THES257619"},{"text":"London","id":"x28980"}],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"<b>Serge Chermayeff (b.1900)</b>\r\nPerspective of the Upper Circle Goyer,\r\nCambridge Theatre, London\r\nBritish, 1929\r\nPencil, bodycolour and metallic\r\npigment\r\n\r\nChermayeff designed the interiors of the\r\nfoyers in the Cambridge Theatre which was\r\ndesigned by Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie.\r\nBuilt on a very tight site at London's Seven\r\nDials the circulation spaces are small and \r\nirregularly shaped. Here Chermayeff uses\r\na \"Jazz Moderne\" vocabulary to suggest\r\nluxury and contemporaneity. Best known \r\nfor his Modernist Interiors for the BBC, and\r\nfor the De La Warr pavilion at Bexhill (with\r\nEric Mendelsohn), Chermayeff left England\r\nin 1939 to teach architecture and design in\r\nAmerica.\r\n\r\nCirc.615-1972","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["CIRC.615-1972"],"accessionNumberNum":"615","accessionNumberPrefix":"CIRC","accessionYear":1972,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}