Design for the front entrance of Christie's auction house, 8 King Street, London
Architect/Designer | Atkinson, Robert (1883-1952) |
Artist/Photographer | Atkinson, Robert (1883-1952) |
Country | UK: England |
City | London |
Subject Date | 1942 |
Image Date | 1942 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Classical Revival |
Medium | Drawing |
Library Reference | PB713/3 |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Auction houses |
NOTES: Christie's building of 1893-1894 designed by J Macvicar Anderson was largely destroyed by an incendiary bomb during the Second World War. Atkinson's designs for the interior were carried out (completed in 1953), but Macvicar Anderson's facade survived the bombing and was retained.
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