Derry & Toms

Derry & Toms was a London department store that was founded in 1860 in Kensington High Street and was famous for its Roof Garden which opened in 1938.

[1] In 1919 Derry & Toms employed the services of poster artist F Gregory Brown to produce advertising.

The building was designed by Bernard George in an Art Deco style popular at the time, and featured metalwork by Walter Gilbert and panel reliefs, entitled Labour & Technology, by Charles Henry Mabey Jr.

The garden was designed by landscape architect Ralph Hancock after the Managing Director of Barkers, Trevor Bowen, visited Rockefeller Center in New York.

The main restaurant, situated on the fifth floor, was called The Rainbow Room and became a venue for thousands of "Dinner & Dances" (banquets), for both private firms and government departments.