ORNAMENTAL PASSIONS

Devoted to the unexpected details that help to make life in the city worth living

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Oxford and Cambridge University Club, 71 Pall Mall SW1

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Apollo and Minerva  Presiding The Oxford and Cambridge University Club was built in 1835 by brothers Sir Robert and Sidney Smirke, with ...
Saturday, 26 October 2013

39-40 Lombard Street EC3

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Buy-to-let is nothing new - this building was funded by the City Offices Company, an investment vehicle, in 1866.  To attract a better cl...
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Friday, 25 October 2013

20 Grafton Street W1

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The large map-like stone plaque next to the door of the Camper & Nicholson yacht shop in Mayfair was made in 2006 by the Iceland-born ...
Thursday, 17 October 2013

National Hospital for Neurology, Queen Square WC1

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Above the doors at each end of the 1937 extension of the National Hospital for Neurology are low relief panels by A.J.J. Ayres, tutor of ...
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Thursday, 3 October 2013

71-73 Cornhill EC3

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A line of turbanned Persians look down on Cornhill from the top floor of the old Union Bank of Australia, built in 1896 by the architect G...
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Friday, 27 September 2013

The Drill Hall, Chenies Street WC1

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Soldiers used to look like soldiers in Victorian times, when they had an empire to subdue.  The Drill Hall was designed in 1882 for the B...
Sunday, 22 September 2013

The Plaza, 116-122 Oxford Street W1

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This vital, swirling image on an Oxford Street palace of commerce was inspired by the prima ballerina Darcy Bussell. Dancer with Ribbon w...
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