Louis Osman (1914 – 1996)
Proposal for St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Pencil, pen, watercolour, &c.
Five drawings: two on paper, 53 x 43 cm; three on board, 55 x 76 cm
Provenance: artist’s studio sale
A set of unrealised architectural proposals for a brutalist extension of St Edmund Hall, circa 1960s. Osman imagined a tall cantilevered tower in the midst of the quadrangle, which would have been a striking interjection to the college’s medieval fabric; other prominent features include a top-floor common room with a picture-window giving onto the Oxford skyline, a vaulted underground theatre, and a suite of well-appointed student accommodation.
Condition: good, with occasional handling marks.
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