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Chevron' design moquette sample

Enid Marx1945

London Transport Museum

London Transport Museum
United Kingdom

This moquette design comprises a grid pattern within a series of outlined squares in light green with a darker green background. It is interspersed with diagonal lines in a chevron pattern in contrasting red, some of which have a checked infill. It was used together with red leather armrests to re-upholster vehicles for the Piccadilly and Central lines after the Second World War. The pattern was designed by Enid Marx, one of three artists that Christian Barman commissioned to create new designs for London Transport vehicles during the 1930s. Some patterns, when in motion, can 'dazzle'. A change in colour tone made on the final design of this Chevron pattern made it prone to dazzle.

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