Record sleeve
Hipgnosis
Category
Musical instruments, devices and recordings
Date
Aug 1972 - 28 Mar 1973
Materials
Cardboard record sleeve
Measurements
312 x 315 mm; 633 mm (Width)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 672641.2
Summary
A cardboard sleeve for a vinyl record, the album ‘Houses Of The Holy’ by Led Zeppelin. The cover of the gatefold style sleeve features neither the bands name nor the album title and is comprised of a collage of images across the front and rear taken by Aubrey Powell of the design group Hipgnosis, showing two children, Stefan and Samantha Gates, clambering over rocks at The Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland. The inside of the sleeve has a colour image of a man holding a child above his head in front of castle ruins on a hillside landscape. This image was also taken by Powell at Dunluce Castle near to The Giants Causeway.
Provenance
Cardboard sleeve for the vinyl record Houses Of The Holy by Led Zeppelin, released by Atlantic Records on 28th March 1973. Designed by Hipgnosis using images taken by Aubrey Powell. Purchased by the National Trust Museum of Childhood via Discogs on 30th March 2020 as part of the Collecting Cultures Exploring Childhoods project.
Makers and roles
Hipgnosis, designer Aubrey Powell (b.1946), photographer Atlantic Records, record label