Take Cover (W2)

Take Cover, 376 Edgware Road, City of Westminster, London W2, 2003 • Giant plastic curtain sign with accompanying essay. Possibly a relative of yesterday’s Take Cover, which was just round the corner. That’s long gone, but this one was still there in 2017.

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By Vici MacDonald
On 2018/03/31
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2003, City of Westminster, London, Shopfront Elegy, W2

illustration, interiors

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