{"product_id":"oliver-messel-stage-set-design-colonnade-circa-1950","title":"Oliver Messel Stage Set Design Colonnade For 'Tough At The Top' 1949","description":"\u003cp\u003eOliver Messel 1904-1978. British School 20th.Century. Stage set design titled 'Colonnade' for 'Tough at The Top.' 1949. Provenance: Redfern Gallery 20 Cork St, London’, Purchased by Sydney Bernstein 1951. Exhibited at The Oliver Messel Exhibition, V\u0026amp;A Museum, 1983. 36.5 by 23 cms image. 50 by 36 cms overall framed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOliver Messel was the foremost British stage and costume designer of the 1930s, 40's and 50's. His often unconventional and opulent designs for the, ballet, theatre and opera, made him the most sought after and highly paid theatrical designer of his generation.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cem class=\"eujQNb\" jsaction=\"\" jscontroller=\"yHWXO#Mkm8ud\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" jsuid=\"rAYgrf_i\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eTough at the Top\u003c\/em\u003e. Was a 1949 musical production, staged at the \u003cspan class=\"T286Pc\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" jsaction=\"\" jscontroller=\"fly6D#d5Qebf\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" jsuid=\"rAYgrf_j\" data-sfc-cb=\"\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style='font-family: \"Google Sans\", Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 18.4px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);'\u003eAdelphi Theatre\u003c\/span\u003e in London, the play was written by A.P. Herbert with music by Vivian Ellis and directed by Wendy Toye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"google_translate_element\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"skiptranslate goog-te-gadget\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Patrick Boyd-Carpenter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63733233910137,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/0291\/6033\/files\/20260609-095726.jpg?v=1781043562","url":"https:\/\/www.pbcfineart.co.uk\/products\/oliver-messel-stage-set-design-colonnade-circa-1950","provider":"Patrick Boyd-Carpenter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}