A NEW FASHION

Northern Advocate, 16 August 1935, Page 4

A NEW FASHION

SET BY THE QUEEN MARY. TO BE ADORNED BY MODERN ARTISTS. LONDON, June 27. Plans lor the interior decorations of the Queen Mary are in hand. Twelve of the younger school ol English artists have already started work on panels and canvasses for the great saloons. They include Mr Stanley Spencer, who was recently involved in a controversy with the Royal Academy when he tried unsuccessfully to withdraw his paintings from the present exhibition. The Queen Mary will be the first ship to be considered from the decorative point of view as a ship rather than a floating hotel. Moving- Pictures. Three painters are collaborating on the state dining room. At one end will be a panel 24ft by 14ft representing a map of the Atlantic with all the ocean routes marked out. Magnetic devices will give the hourly movements of great liners. This will be the work of MacDonald Gill, one of the first artists to do posters for the Underground Railway. The corresponding panel on the opposite site is being done by Stanley Spencer. , For those who get "bored with the sea” is the "verandah restaurant" at the top of the ship. This is to be decorated by Doris Zinkeisen in her “most sbpliisticated and modern” style The other of these brilliantly original sisters, Anna Zinkeisen, is at work on designs for the tea and dance room. Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Edward Wadsworth, Stephen Bone, Mary Adshead and James Woodford will all contribute towards making the Queen Mary a work of art throughout.