Our condensing boiler at home was manufactured by the British company Wolseley. Obviously very successful, the owner Jeremy Lancaster also built up an impressive collection of 20th century art, initially British, but later geographically wider. Works from the collection, including Picssso, Warhol, Miro, Bridget Riley and David Hockney were on auction at Christie’s at the […]
It’s a busy week in London for art visitors who would have leapt round from Jeff Koons’ exhibition at Alime Rech’s new Gallery to Berkeley Square where there was an opportunity to bid for Jeff Koons’ “Dom Perignon BALLOON VENUS”, from an edition of 650 for an estimate of only £25,000 to £35,000, one of the […]
If you are a modern or contemporary art collector, this is the week you need to be in London as Phillips, Sotheby’s, Bonhams and Christies all compete for your attention and your credit card. In Berkeley Square, Leger’s sculpture “La Fleur qui marche” is running across the winter lawn towards Phillips which has three floors bursting with […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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