Brixton. Rough Guide.

Typewriter.

Typewriter as an exhibit in a pub in Brixton.

This was an old typewriter hung on the wall of a pub as a piece of work done by an artist. Along with many other forms of art which people have created and then exhibited around the pub.

• It was strong, Metal, bottle dark green, black and white, Antique, old, Stern, Rustic, Patterned, Structural design, .

This old typewriter is hung on the wall in front of the main door of the pub being one of the first aspects of art that you see when you walk in. Its Green with white and black buttons in stripped line patterns. It has a very rustic old fashioned look to it, One red button on the right hand side made from a heavier metal, with two round cylinder vacuum like formed shapes at the top. There is a small newsprint yellow stained cream till roll on the left hand side. It was more of a shop till style typewriter instead of a full keyboard type.

The first things which come to mind when I look at the typewriter are:

• Steam Trains, Old fashioned sweet shops, Dark Green, Vintage, Antique, Victorian times, Neutral, Economical, World War 2, Buttons, Bottles, Scrap yard, Black and white and Metal workshops.

This typewriter could be used in a shop window as a display, in a museum as a piece of history which is to be restored for story behind it. Could also still be used as an olden day piece of technology. It has a lot of different contexts in which it could be shown and used. The way it was shown hung on the wall in a simple frame was very effective, because you want look up close at the detail which are shown in the design. It would look out of place if it was in a modern day scenario say a modern supermarket which an old style typewriter would not do the design itself any justification, but having found it in a bar which is not necessarily the right context which you would find it in, was beautifully presented in the interior design with all the antiques with other vintage objects.