Midnight May Fair
entertainment and pleasure Mount Street Gardens, Hay Hill, Shepherd Market, an area of Mayfair which owes its name to the historic market that was held here from 1686 […]
Category: stories
Phoenix Gardens Centrepoint St Giles Rookery
“the crossroads between time and eternity”
Peter Ackroyd
Soho Flowers
“you’re the measure of my dreams”
#eros #KarlMarx #Kettners #Ronnies #WilliamBlake #BarItalia #VinceMansShop #SohoFlowers
Curzon Mayfair
Based on the ceiling and lights of the iconic 60s Curzon Mayfair Cinema – a grade 2 listed building. My favourite London cinema. “The interior of the cinema […]
Chelsea Hotel NYC
PattiSmith’s poetical book #JustKids summons the mood #1970s “Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for […]
Rockefeller Centre ~ NYC collection
Physician David Hosack purchased twenty acres of rural land from New York City in 1801 for $5,000 and opened the country’s first botanical garden ~ the Elgin Botanic […]
Hatton Garden & Bleeding Heart Yard
Hatton Garden was originally the site of the medieval palace, gardens and orchard of the Bishops of Ely’s City residence ~ an open green space for hundreds of […]
The Lost Sista ~ Red House
My collections are inspired by the spirit of place, psychogeography, memory and history. For the Open Call I have chosen the history of the Red House in Bexley […]
Meanwhile ~ lockdown
THE STORY OF MEANWHILE GARDENS A community garden built on former derelict land in 1976Home to the Metronomes Steel Pan Orchestra since 1989Aswad’s Live and Direct concert/album recorded […]
Meanwhile ~ punky reggae
THE STORY OF MEANWHILE GARDENS A community garden built on former derelict land in 1976Home to the Metronomes Steel Pan Orchestra since 1989Aswad’s Live and Direct concert/album recorded […]
Ladbroke Grove Gas Angels
“ Where the Grand Junction Canal and the main line railway to Paddington diverge from their parallel course there is a teardrop shaped patch of land bounded on […]
Chelsea Linneaus
‘Find wonder in everything, even the most commonplace’ #CarlLinnaeus #ChelseaPhysicGarden #HeartofLondon #EsotericLondon #EsotericLandmarks #LondonSoul Silk scarves inspired by the Linnaeus installation at the Chelsea Physic Garden, London. Featuring […]
Hampstead
Hampstead Heath pond in the winter, walking with a dear friend. An Ancient heath, 790 acres ~ the largest single area of common land in Greater London. Sitting […]
Queens of New York
#NewYorkStatePavilion, built for the 1964 New York World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows #Queens #NYC Warhol’s work, 13 Most Wanted Men, sparked controversy before the Fair’s opening in April […]
Sea Diamond
Horizons from the Atlantic Ocean seen from Cape Cornwall facing west and images from the ceiling in a Milanese Palazzo once owned by a seafraing family.
John Rich Harlequin ~ Covent Garden
inspired by cover competition in The Covent Gardener Magazine to convey the spirit of this wonderful part of #London #Punk #TwoTone #Victorian terrace houses opposite the tube station, […]
Hackney Empire
#classicfavourite ~ the story of #HackneyEmpire a music hall that has travelled through time ~ from #1901 creating laughs, tears & pathos in the East End of London […]
Oxford Street Xmas Tartan
Selfridges Oxford Strteet London ~ summoning the festive sparkle of late night, winter, London xmas lights. Featuring the luxurious Beaux Arts ionic pillars of Selfridges department store – […]
Whittington
The story of Dick Whittington featuring many London landmarks all with their own stories Bow Bells Peter Jones #SloaneSquare – Leopard with a feather in his cap #LondonEye […]