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Philip Bawcombe
Philip William Bawcombe, FRSA born in London in 1906 and died in 2000, was an industrial designer, inter alia for film studios, and official South African war artist during World War II, who also produced acclaimed collections of paintings illustrating the cities of Johannesburg and Kimberley, in South Africa, published as books in 1973 and 1976 respectively.
Education
Bawcombe was born in London in 1906. He attended the Choir School of St Peter's, Eaton Square, and sang at both St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey.
Philip bawcombe biography
He completed his schooling at Framlingham College in Suffolk.[1]
A career in industrial and set design
Bawcombe was apprenticed to a firm of shopfitters before joining the design department of a London firm of interior decorators.
He afterwards became a senior designer for ocean liner decorators.
From 1930 Bawcombe applied his skills to film sets joining the industrial art department of Gaumont-British Picture Corporation. T