The laughing cavalier of British design
May 19, 2021
2 minutes
WHEN Claud Lovat Fraser died on June 18, 1921, aged 31, the news resounded around the worlds of art, advertising, theatre and design. Yet now, a century on, his name and work are almost unknown. In retrospect, he could be said to have died twice: once from the effects of war and then from those of adulation. In 1924, Seymour Adelman, a young Philadelphian, bought
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