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Description: | Heal's have traded from their present shop on Tottenham Court Road since it was built in 1916. Designed by Cecil Brewer, the fa��ade has heraldic cast-iron reliefs of various crafts, probably chosen by Ambrose Heal himself, who had written a book on historical shop signs.
Heal was a pioneering retailer and promoter of modernism. He incorporated a gallery space, the Mansard gallery, into the shop. He used the space to promote his ideas of good design, including a series of exhibitions called 'Modern Tendencies' in the early 1930s.
His attention to detail extended to the shop's catalogues. They had lovely illustrations and graphics commissioned from contemporary commercial artists. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | MoDA | Rights holder: | MoDA, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (Middlesex University) | Subjects: | Art and Design | Temporal: | 1938 | Source: | Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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