Sir Hugh Casson, 42, who made his name (and his knighthood) by supervising the architectural preparations for the 1951 Festival of Britain, is in charge of decorating London's Westminster section for Queen Elizabeth's coronation. A solemn-looking man, he has taken lighthearted femininity as his motif. "After all," says he, "it will be a woman's day." Reproduced on the opposite page are some of the working sketches which he and his associates have prepared.
OXFORD STREET, one of the world's busiest shopping thoroughfares, will be decorated with crests of shoemaking, hat-making, umbrella-making and other crafts.
ST. JAMES'S STREET posed a problem.
Because it is...
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