The Print Room

The Print Room is the study room where you can see works of art on paper from the V&A collection. Over one million objects are available, including designs, drawings, illustrations, ephemera, fashion plates, graphics, greetings cards, miniatures, photographs, prints, posters, wallpapers and watercolours.

The Print Room is open without appointment from Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 4.30pm, and Saturday, 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 4.30pm. Last application for objects is at 3.45pm. The Print Room is closed on Sunday and Monday.

For enquiries please call: +44 (0)20 7942 2563 or email: pdp@vam.ac.uk
For group bookings please call: +44 (0)20 7942 2197

The following list is a selection of items from the 1920s-1930s. You might find this a useful starting point to researching other Art Deco items in the collections. To order up these items in the Print Room you will need the accession numbers (given here in brackets) and the pressmarks, which are found in the Print Room catalogues. Staff at the Print Room desk will be able to help you to consult the catalogues and fill in request slips. It usually takes about 10-15 minutes to retrieve items from store.

Designs
Designs by Serge Chermayeff for the Cambridge Theatre, Seven Dials, London (E.85-1979 and Circ.615-1972)

Designs by Raymond McGrath, including interior designs for Fisher's Restaurant, 1932 (Circ.564 to 566-1974) and designs for radios (Circ.553 to 555-1974).

Cinema designs by John Alexander (E.452 to 455-1973).

Design for a bar interior by Eduard Josef Wimmer (Circ.397-1976).

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Photographs
Photographs by:
Florence Henri (Ph.263 to 274-1982)
Francis Bruguière ( E.984 to 992-1993)
Cecil Beaton

Man Ray

Portrait of Joan Crawford by Edward Steichen, 1932 (Circ.973-1967).

'Micrographie Decorative' by Laure Albin-Guillot ( E.622:1to 24-1994).

Wallpaper
Borders from about 1920-30, with some abstract Art Deco patterns (E.3101 to 3130-1930).

Various wallpapers from about 1920-1930 in Art Deco styles (E.2994 to 3019-1930).

Geometric pattern wallpaper by Arthur Sanderson & sons Ltd, c1925-30 (E.494-1967).

Unused roll of geometric pattern wallpaper by Arthur Sanderson & sons Ltd, c1925-30 (same as above but different colourway). (E.175-1998).

Posters
(please consult the Prints catalogues for accession numbers and pressmarks)

Posters from the 1920s-1930s designed by:
Edward McKnight Kauffer
A. M. Cassandre

Roger Broders

Horace Taylor

Caddy (Eté, E.245-1981)

Frank Newbould

Austin Cooper

Tom Purvis

Prints
(please consult the Prints catalogues for accession numbers and pressmarks)

Prints by: Cyril Power, Lill Tschudi, Claude Flight, Georges Barbier, Sonia Delaunay, Erté and Georges Le Pape.

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