Live auction - Lot 453
Live auction - Lot 453
[Brussels - Persil]
Two albums concerning the German brand Persil.
Hammer price: €
360
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
24 silver prints, 16,5/22,6 x 21,5/29,2 cm, b/w, pasted on thick grey paper, captions under each photo.
Orig. paper wr., titles on front covers.
Two albums showing the offices and training center of Persil, the German brand of laundry detergent, launched in 1907 and manufactured and marketed by Henkel around the world. Apparently there was a training center in Brussels to show a public how to do the laundry in a proper way. With photos of the facade of the training center (in the former "Grand hotel de Bruxelles"), the entrance hall, projection room, cloakroom, office, ironing room and projection booth. The other album shows the Persil offices in the Van Orleystreet in Brussels, the director's office, council room, the waiting room, the administration desk, publicity department, several other offices, the archive room and the publicity expo room.