Five silver backed mirrored Vita glass panels designed by Hector Whistler for the Marine Spa Torquay

Five silver backed mirrored Vita glass panels designed by Hector Whistler for the Marine Spa Torquay, 1929 each painted in black with simple boating and seaside scenes panels 96 x 188cm, central domed panel 96 x 206cm.

Provenance

Vita Glass sun lounge, Marine Spa Torquay, 1929

removed from Spa in 1971

Catalogue Notes

Hector Whistler (Reginald Whistler), reputedly the cousin of the artist Rex Whistler, was a camouflage office during World War I, returning to set up a design studio in Oxford after the war. along with this commission he produced a series of decorative glass panels for the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool designed by Herbert J Rowse and built between 1933-1939. These panels were shown to Paul Atterbury on the Antiques Road Show in 2009