Co-operative Architecture 1945 - 1959 : London Co-operative Society : Hounslow Department Store, 1958
From a very lavish production, printed of course by the CWS's own Printing Works at Reddish, is a description of the new flagship department store for the huge London Co-operative Society in Hounslow that opened in 1958. The building that I suspect was at the eastern end of Staines Road has now I think been demolished. What seems to have been of especially interest was the "Starlight Room" restaurant pictured here with some amazing internal decorative features and I so hope they were saved but I strongly doubt it. The images dscrive the interior and show some of the sand-blasted mirrors showing the symbols of the Zodiac.
The book describes the many new shops, stores, factories and offices for the CWS and the various Societies were designed by the CWS's own Architects Department in the day when the Society basically made and did everything its members could need.
From comments on Twitter - astonishingly this building was indeed demolished a few years ago - what happened to these fittings from the restuarant that apparently had a view from "Windsor to the South Downs" no one knows.
Co-operative Architecture 1945 - 1959 : London Co-operative Society : Hounslow Department Store, 1958
From a very lavish production, printed of course by the CWS's own Printing Works at Reddish, is a description of the new flagship department store for the huge London Co-operative Society in Hounslow that opened in 1958. The building that I suspect was at the eastern end of Staines Road has now I think been demolished. What seems to have been of especially interest was the "Starlight Room" restaurant pictured here with some amazing internal decorative features and I so hope they were saved but I strongly doubt it. The images dscrive the interior and show some of the sand-blasted mirrors showing the symbols of the Zodiac.
The book describes the many new shops, stores, factories and offices for the CWS and the various Societies were designed by the CWS's own Architects Department in the day when the Society basically made and did everything its members could need.
From comments on Twitter - astonishingly this building was indeed demolished a few years ago - what happened to these fittings from the restuarant that apparently had a view from "Windsor to the South Downs" no one knows.