Interior. View of board room.

Description Interior. View of board room.

Date 1927

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 701344

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 29592

Scope and Content Board Room, Union Bank of Scotland, Nos 110-20 St Vincent Street, Glasgow (now the Bank of Scotland) The Union Bank of Scotland, the head office of the bank in Glasgow, was designed in 1925-7 in an American Classical style by the Glasgow architect, James Miller. This photograph of the board room was taken in 1927 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. This room, influenced in its design by the interiors of American bank buildings, has walls lined with moulded panels of Austrian oak, and fluted Ionic pilasters flanking the chimneypiece. It is minimally furnished, with a large, highly polished table and chairs with legs curved like the forelegs of a leaping animal. The dominant figure within the board of the bank was the general manager, Norman Hird, appointed to the post at the age of 34. Much of the interior design of the building was influenced by a visit to New York in 1923 when he studied American bank buildings with a view to the construction of the new head office. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference box 70

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