Now that our catalogue is live you can uncover a feast of objects in his personal archive such as original costume designs from the 1973 production of including the french fashion illustrations used as inspiration, start exploring today https://t.co/VrBLskF4q2

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Last chance to book for our FREE photography workshop Oliver Messel: A Life in Photographs on 16 January, to book see https://t.co/d3d0zRR8Of Please RT

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Glamorous Messel & friends dine on the liner SS Liberté, 1951.

Sneak preview of our exhibition 'Wake up and Dream - Theatre, Art and Society’', which starts tomorrow https://t.co/5ilgIZzJhg

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20 Nov-13 Jan 2019 RWA will be exhibiting works from the Oliver Messel Archive in partnership with Theatre Collection. Image credit: Oliver Messel working on one of the props for the Jean Cocteau play The Infernal Machine, c.1940. Photograph by Tunbridge and Sedgwick.

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Happy day! From the Oliver Messel Archive we have this article on the 'new uses of sugar cane' and a photograph by Messel of the cane being used as a building material!

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5. Here is Messel (l) and Rayne (r) discussing the model Messel made of his proposed designs

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