Co-operative Architecture 1945 - 1959 : Crawey Co-operative Society, main store, 1957
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 Crawley Co-operative Society that was opened in 1959. The elevations and facade are very much of their day, quite 'Festival of Britain in style, and the store was a prominent feature of the planned New Town's centre. The interiors are so contemporary and I can only say what a great shame nothing, to my knowledge, of this era of retail and shop design, has survived in the UK.
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.
Co-operative Architecture 1945 - 1959 : Crawey Co-operative Society, main store, 1957
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 Crawley Co-operative Society that was opened in 1959. The elevations and facade are very much of their day, quite 'Festival of Britain in style, and the store was a prominent feature of the planned New Town's centre. The interiors are so contemporary and I can only say what a great shame nothing, to my knowledge, of this era of retail and shop design, has survived in the UK.
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.