Social History — 1953
Decoration
This artificial rose was used as a street decoration in the City of Westminster during Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953. Mass produced in plastic, the roses were attached by wire to lamp posts along the route of the procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.
The roses were designed by the architect Hugh Maxwell Casson (1910-1999) who acted as an architectural design consultant to the City of Westminster for the Coronation. Casson said that the street decorations for the Coronation 'had to reflect history, religion, pageantry and the basic greatness of this country, but they had to be feminine and light-hearted too'. He had the lamp posts which the roses were suspended from painted pale blue.
- Category:
- Social History
- Object ID:
- 2009.29/1
- Object name:
- decoration
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- Production date:
- 1953
- Material:
- iron, plastic
- Measurements/duration:
- L 210 mm, H 132 mm
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
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