Michael Haynes
Regent Street Window Display 1967

Acrylic painting 1967
Throughout the sixties Haynes continued to make acrylic constructions, selling to private collections, including fashion designer, Heubert Givenchi; American playboy, John Gallagher; theatre entrepreneur, Ralph Fields; and photographer, David Bailey. He was commissioned by Sir Cecil Beaton to design a series of acrylic painting covering the walls of a night club in Brussels. Beaton withdrew from the project, but the paintings were completed and hang at Elsfield Manor, in Oxfordshire.Throughout the sixties Haynes continued to make acrylic constructions, selling to private collections, including fashion designer, Heubert Givenchi; American playboy, John Gallagher; theatre entrepreneur, Ralph Fields; and photographer, David Bailey. He was commissioned by Sir Cecil Beaton to design a series of acrylic painting covering the walls of a night club in Brussels. Beaton withdrew from the project, but the paintings were completed and hang at Elsfield Manor, in Oxfordshire.



Acrylic painting 1967
Early 3D painting
13 Chester Row
Madam Tussaud's London 1967
In 1967 Haynes designed and installed the “Swinging London” Exhibition at Madam Tussaud's, London. His Swinging Personalities were depicted by life size cut out photographs, which included artist Peter Blake. Sir Peter liked the idea so much that he developed the concept for the Beatles record cover, “Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Other exhibitions designed by Haynes in the sixties included photographs by Norman Parkingson, David Bailey and the American photographer and film director, Bill Klein.

Cut-out images of swinging sixties stars including The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Jean Shrimpton, PJ Proby, Mary Quant, David Hockney, Peter Blake, Gerald Scarfe, The Who The Kinks, Twiggy, Bruce Lacey, Paul Jones
Haynes won the Regent Street annual window display award seven times, as well as winning the Sunday Telegraph trophy for the best national window display for two years running, and the Evening Standard trophy for the best displays in London. Other displays included an installation by the cast of “An Evening of British Rubbish”, staring Bruce Lacey from the Windhams Theatre in London. The exhibition of “Celebrity Christmas Trees”, designed by personalities received much publicity. Haynes designed window displays for Mary Quant during the sixties at the Knightsbridge and Kings Road, Chelsea, boutiques. His Christmas display consisting of lines of penguins, with spring heads fitted to concentric cranks, was brought by one of the Beatles.
Madame Tussaud's 1967 Swinging London Exhibition
Madame Tussaud's 1967 Swinging London Exhibition