Who stole the Wallace Collection? It has vanished under a cocoon of white, behind which you can hear drilling as builders repair the front of the building. The white cocoon is quite a contrast to the rich interiors inside with its amazing collections of furniture, painting, sculpture, armour, clocks and other object. One of the […]
You forget the scale, breadth and quality of the Wallace Collection – a treasure house of art off the tourist trail in Hertford House, north of the shopping frenzy in Oxford Street – with superlative examples of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries, in particular a strong emphasis on work […]
Glass sculpture can be imaginative and demonstrate great fluidity and virtuosity; it can provide huge contrasts and variety from the brilliantly clear to opaque; from white to coloured from solid to translucent, from bold to exquisitely detailed and it allows the light to flow through in amazingly different ways. Glasstress: White Light | White Heat […]
The Wallace Collection at Hertford House, the main London house of its former owners, the Marquesses of Herford and Sir Richard and Lady Wallace, was bequeathed to the British Nation in 1897. It is a stunning collection of art, but particularly rich in paintings, furniture, porcelain, clocks and other objects from France in eighteenth and […]
"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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