A Dining Room: Showing Door and Buffet [Building News Designing Club]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1877 (original) 1878 (reproduction)
Maker: William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931)
Dimensions:
Image: 140 x 201 mm (14 x 20.1 cm)
Sheet: 331 x 432 mm (33.1 x 43.2 cm)
Medium: Black printing ink on paper
Object number: R.85.14
DescriptionDouble page spread from the Building News dated 18th January 1878; these appear to be the top four designs for dining rooms and buffets, Lethaby's in first place and three other designs by other designers. Lethaby's drawing shows 1) full frontal elevation 2) scale in feet and inches 3) and a detail of the jamb. Signed with the Debut pseudonym. Lethaby's design labelled number "1" by The Building News, for first place. Reduced in size from thre original.
