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Person    | Male  Born 30/4/1925  Died 30/1/2020

William Mitchell

Categories: Sculpture

William Mitchell

Sculptor. He has worked in a vast variety of techniques and media, producing some grand-scale works. Among his London projects are the interior of the , Mayfair, the in , the at the entrance to the Cavendish underground carpark and the Egyptian staircase at Harrods. A personal friend of Mohammed Al-Fayed, he was given the commission for the Dodi and Diana memorial in Harrods, and the less than popularly acclaimed statue of Michael Jackson at Fulham football ground. He was the designer/architect at Harrods for over 40 years. Died Cumbria.

Works outside London include: doors and bell tower at the Metropolitan Cathedral Liverpool and the Stations of the Cross at Bristol Cathedral.

His autobiography, with lots of pictures of his work, is available at .

The Browning sculpture was created in Mitchell's workshop by Thackwray who acknowledges an "obvious and inevitable Mitchellian influence".

2025: reported "One of London’s oldest and most storied cinemas, Curzon Mayfair, is closing for good. ... The company {Fantasio} ... is promising to spend £15million and restore some of the cinema’s original features and install new audio and visual screen technology." Let's hope that includes Mitchell's work.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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William Mitchell

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Dodi and Diana - Harrods

Both the Egyptian escalator and associated decorations and the bronze statue ...

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Michael Jackson statue - lost

This memorial is no longer here. Michael Jackson was a friend of Mohamed Al-F...

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New River mosaic

This mosaic mural is quite a success, with the pair of compasses disgorging t...

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Robert Browning - W2 sculpture

2015: The attribution of this work, ‘Two Doves’, to William Mitchell is being...

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