Images of London Hidden Interiors By Philip Davies
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Sixty locations from the tome London Hidden Interiors are here assembled into a rather portable bookazine format English Heritage s Philip Davies provides a few paragraphs about each alongside photographs by the architectural photographer Derek Kendell Most subjects are given a two page spread although some are allowed three or even four pages. Images of London Hidden Interiors ebooks free The cover image is of New Hall in Lincoln s Inn and the selection starts with the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft in the Palace of Westminster These are the kind of locations one would expect but many of the inclusions are lesser known and there are also modern sites such as the Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science Utilitarian spaces are represented not just by the iconic Battersea Power Station but also by Stockwell Bus Garage at one time the largest area under a single roof in Europe Several shops are included such as the Algerian Coffee Stores in Soho and James Smith Sons the distinctive umbrella maker and retailer near the British Museum. Images of London Hidden Interiors bookworm Those interested in religion will appreciate the chance to see inside some chapels with limited accessibility the former Middlesex Hospital Chapel now the Fitztovia Chapel where Rudyard Kipling lay in state the moving St Christopher s Chapel Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street Davies quotes The Christian World as writing of this lavish neo Byzantine space that We cannot regret the expenditure as one thinks how the little ones will revel in the beauty and the Chapel of St Francis of Assisi inside Wormwood Scrubs roundels depicting the great prison reformers Elizabeth Fry and John Howard look down in reproach and compassion The esoterically minded will appreciate the Masonic Temple Andaz inside Liverpool Steet Hotel Davies explodes an urban myth that the space had previously been hidden behind a false wall and rediscovered in 1997 as well as Rudolph Steiner House compared to the work of Antoni Gaud and Erich Mendelsohn and the former spiritual home of the Agapemonites in Clapton now a Georgian Orthodox cathedral Other faiths are represented by the Shri Swaminarayan Mandir opened in 1995. EBook Images of London Hidden interiors home Some private residences are also included such as a building called The Thematic House an 1840s town house that was converted by the architect Charles Jencks and his friends into a post modernist home imbued with 22 different levels of meaning around the themes of cosmic time and cultural time including a Cosmic Loo and spiral mosaic of a black hole More traditional is Crosby Hall a fifteenth century house transported from Bishopsgate to Chelsea in 1910 and now a vast new private palace owned by a City financier named Christopher Moran who intends to lie for eternity in his private mausoleum Davies does not pass judgement but this struck me as grandiose and hubristic and lacking the sense of humour that infuses Jenck s project. Book Images of London Hidden interiors home Business premises include the Daily Express Building now Goldman Sachs a black Vitrolite clad structure described in 1932 as Britain s most modern building for Britain s most modern newspaper and Lloyds of London famous as a modernist metallic structure but which surprisingly incorporates an eighteenth century dining room by Robert Adam on the ninth floor. Images of London Hidden Interiors ebookee Davies s descriptions are aimed at the general reader and alongside the architectural and artistic details he includes some historical cultural and literary notes without regard for high and pop cultural distinctions The Church of St James the Less includes a plaque that commemorates Canon Arthur Thorndike the father of the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike the Royal Automobile Club was where Burgess and Maclean had their last lunch together before defecting the Long Bar at the Criterion in Piccadilly is noted for its appareance in the first Sherlock Holmes story although Davies incorrectly describes the location as being where Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first met Watson instead met his associate Stamford there who took him to meet Holmes at St Bartholomew s Hospital the British Optical Association Museum includes artificial eyes for the dead from ancient Egypt but also an alien Long Necked Jedi eye from Attack of the Clones and Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub in Fleet Street was the model for the pub to which Sydney Carton takes Charles Darney in The Tale of Two Cities Oddly the section on the Clermont Club fails to mention John Aspinall although Ian Fleming Lucien Freud James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan get name checked in Freud s case this lavish gambling den is a contrast to the Colony Room. Images of London Hidden Interiors kindle unlimited My personal favourite is probably the library at St Paul s Cathedral which Davies says was described as somewhat dark for a library by the German bibliophile Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach in 1710 It was recently in the news when the cathedral announced the opportunity of an overnight stay for World Book Day at a cost of just 7 alas though the offer was limited to just two guests English
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