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(P1683)
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"Interior decorator and theater designer, Cyril Felix Harbord was born in the small coastal town of Felixstowe in Suffolk, England on June 22, 1906. His formal studies in art began at University College London, where he trained under noted architect Sir Albert Richardson. He then studied painting at the university’s Slade School of Fine Art and sculpture at an unknown school in New York. While his many talents offered a myriad of career paths, he pursued a career in architecture working in the firm of his former professor, Richardson. In his spare time, Harbord designed theater costumes and props, including the Greek Play Society’s 1926 production of Oedipus Tyrannis. Harbord then served as Librarian and Art Keeper for the Bute Collection, an impressive collection of Old Master paintings, antique books, porcelain, glass, and silver housed at Mount Stuart, the ancestral home of the Stuart family. At some point before the war, he changed his name to Felix Paul Jerome Harbord." (language: en)
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