Barbados.- Messel (Oliver, artist and stage designer, 1904-78) 4 pen and ink designs with manuscript notes and 2 drawings for the addition of a lift to Government House in Barbados, together 6 pictures (4 designs for the outside of Government House, 1 drawing design of a lift tower on upper cover and another a loose drawing of 2 identical pictures of a girl, "Its the same says Miss Government House! they tell me no one can see the difference!), 3 designs extensively browned and laid in with tape, original boards,upper cover detaching, joints split, folio, [c. 1968].

⁂ Messel moved to Barbados in 1966 where he worked as an architect, designing and decorating houses for private clients, and on nearby Mustique as the architect to the island's owner, the Hon. Colin Tennant.

Provenance: Jimmy Walker, one of three senior partners in the architectural practice of Robertson Ward Associates. While Messel had a flair for design he needed an architect to to put his designs into reality.