Silk Pocket Square – ‘Ride Ahead’

Otway & Orford proudly present ‘Ride Ahead’, a striking silk pocket square in collaboration with the estate of one of the twentieth century’s greatest graphic designers, Abram Games OBE RDI.

For over 60 years, Abram Games produced some of Britain’s most memorable images, now a fascinating record of social history. During WW2 he was uniquely appointed ‘Official War Poster Artist’. In peacetime his clients included the UN, Shell and Guinness.

He designed stamps for Britain, Jersey and Israel, book jackets for Penguin and emblems for, amongst others, the 1951 Festival of Britain. Games’s original artwork was titled ‘Ride Ahead with the Household Cavalry’ and was the result
of a commission in 1949 to design a recruitment poster. In preparation, he had asked for visual reference. A few days later, his wife Marianne answered the doorbell and came face to face with the visual reference supplied, a small trooper from the Household Cavalry struggling under the weight of full dress regalia.

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