Shop Moderne Murals

There’s little doubt that the late 1950s and early 1960 was boom time for public art. No gleaming ’shop modern’ office building or department store or apartment complex was complete without some sort of sculpture or water feature or chunky mural at street level to give warmth to their austere angles. If you look at modern development today there is sparse attention given to anything as frivolous as decoration apart from a few deliberately unimaginative slabs of commissioned work stashed away in the foyer.

So it is that The Twentieth Century Society has launched a campaign to save some of the dwindling number of public murals from that era [c20society.org.uk/murals], like the series pictured here in Holborn by Dorothy Annan which is due for demolition soon. You can seen more pictures of it [via flickr].