This is a bronze plaque I designed for the ‘Sons of the Desert’ - The international Laurel and Hardy appreciation society. (Homepage: Sons of the Desert)
Bronze plaque designed by Ian Marsden for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy appreciation society - Culver Hotel, downtown Culver City.
Shortly after city founder Harry Culver opened the landmark Culver Hotel it appeared in several films throughout the ‘golden age of comedy’. Producer Hal Roach featured the building in his ‘Our Gang’, ‘Charley Chase’ and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy comedies. The hotel is particularily prominent in his films “Putting Pants on Philip” and “Leave ‘em Laughin’” with Laurel and Hardy. Placed by the way out west tent of the sons of the desert 2003.
Ian Marsden the artist who designed the plaque also designed the ‘Duke’s Place’ logo and mural, trompe l’oeil for the lobby bar and also was commissioned to paint several large pop art canvases for the hotel restaurant.
