Drawing, Design for London's New Entertainment Centre

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Victoria & Albert Museum as part of Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.

Murals were one of Kauffer’s primary contributions to the modern public interior. These early mural studies were two of many designs for a publicity campaign promoting a new exhibition and events venue. Here Kauffer uses a quadrilateral form to create an illusion of space—a two-dimensional space frame. This motif would become one of Kauffer’s signatures, used repeatedly to suggest dimensionality in his graphic works at all scales.

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.