Pinkham, Roger (ed.) - Oliver Messel (1983 1st. ed.)

Pinkham, Roger (editor) - Oliver Messel

An Exhibition Held at the Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, 22 June - 30 October 1983

With contributions by Cecil Beaton et al.

London, The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983, first edition

Grey pictorial wraps with white lettering on spine
Large 4to: 22 x 27,5 cm.
200 Pages

VERY GOOD

With 104 colour and b/w illustrations

The works of Messel, including those for film, stage, interiors, and more

With a biographical outline and essay about Messel and the Theatre as well as chronological lists of films, exhibitions.

'I attempted to use every device to make as much magic as possible'. Oliver Messel.

Oliver Messel was the leading British stage designer of the mid-twentieth century.
He was born on 13 January 1904 to Maud Frances (1875-1960) (daughter of the Punch cartoonist Edward Linley Sambourne (1844-1953)) and Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel (1872-1953), a successful banker.
Messel began his fifty-year career in 1925 and won international acclaim for his exquisite taste and mastery of period style in revues, plays, films, interiors, buildings, musicals, operas and ballets, becoming one of the most sought-after and highly-paid scenery and costume designers of his era.
He died in 1978

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