ALEXANDER CHILSOM & CO., LTD.: BUILDERS, DECORATORS AND FURNISHERS
by CHILSOM & CO., ALEXANDER
(BUILDER'S PROSPECTUS) CHILSOM & CO., ALEXANDER. ALEXANDER CHILSOM & CO., LTD.: BUILDERS, DECORATORS AND FURNISHERS. Liverpool: Cunard Building, (circa 1930). Folio. Cloth. 2 leaves, 13 plates. A rare item not recorded on OCLC. A prospectus published for the firm of Alexander Chilsom & Co. Comprising a half-title and title leaf and thirteen plates, each with a tissue guard, of mounted sepia photographs of interiors created by the firm. Each image measures 10 x 8 inches and they include eigh of the Welcombe Hotel, Stratford-on-Avon (seven interiors and one outside vie of the garden); one image of the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate; one image of the Trocadero Cinema, Humberstone, Leicester; an art deco cigarette kiosk at Birkenhead; and two images of manufacturing in the firm. The images of the Welcombe hotel that dominate the book presumably are for the fitting out of t hotel in 1928 when it was converted from a house to a hotel. The house was originally constructed as a Jacobean style country house in 1866 by Henry Clutton; however, Alexander Chilsom introduced elements of Art Deco in their interior renovation. Internally very good. (Inventory #: 38448)