Artisan art deco.
Painted ceiling decoration in the foyer of Sheffield City Hall, with Sheffield (the wheatsheaf) and Yorkshire (the white boar) motifs. The City Hall was designed by E. Vincent Harris (also responsible for Manchester Library) in 1920 but not built until 1929-32. Despite the architect’s ostensible neo-classical conservatism, the building’s full of quirky 30s detail, including a stark dressed stone auditorium with a domed glass ceiling and star-shaped light-fittings (which, perhaps not surprisingly, are impossible to photograph with a mobile phone).