Modern Furniture (1958)

Tottenham Court Road, London. C/U of two pyramid shaped white light shades hanging at an odd angle - they are designed by Henry Long and are made from Perspex. The narrator explains these shades and all the other furniture in this item are from Christopher and Anthony Heal’s latest collection. M/S of a living room (in fact, like all the other ’rooms’, it is an elaborate display on the forth floor of the department store, Heal’s) . A woman dressed in red, Ann Taylor, enters and goes over a cocktail cabinet, designed by Nigel Walters, made from wood and white plastic. She slides open the main door and then opens a smaller side door which pivots. The pivoting door stands on fold away legs like an ironing board to create a ’bar’. M/S of a dressing table made from white metal and pine standing in the corner of an elegant, modernistic bedroom designed by Ernest Race. A woman dressed in pink, Coral Ellahi, enters and sits at the dressing table. She demonstrates