ORNAMENTAL PASSIONS

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

Saturday, 24 May 2014

Great Cumberland Place W1

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In the siege of Budapest in 1944 Raul Wallenberg saved possibly as many as 100,000 Jews from the gas chambers by issuing them with emerge...
Friday, 23 May 2014

Shaw Theatre, 100 Euston Road NW1

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The entrance to the Shaw Theatre is marked by Keith Grant's abstract piece St Joan, intended to recall not the girl but the military c...
Thursday, 22 May 2014

British Library, Euston Road NW1

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Antony 'Angel of the North' Gormley is usually one for big, indeed unavoidable statement sculpture but at the British Library he...
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014

British Library, Euston Road NW1

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Eduardo Paolozzi's gigantic bronze image of Sir Isaac Newton dominates the forecourt of the British Library. It is very imposing, with...
Monday, 19 May 2014

St Richard's House, 102 Eversholt Street NW1

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This surprisingly good carving is over the doorway of a dreary 1960s social housing block down the side of Euston Station. St Richard was ...
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Friday, 16 May 2014

Vue West End Cinema, Cranbourn Street WC2

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The flamboyantly Art Deco facade of the Vue Cinema dates back to 1938 when it was built as the Warner Theatre by architects Thomas Somerfo...
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Thursday, 1 May 2014

Museum of London, 150 London Wall EC2

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Two giant salamanders have been installed on the rotunda that London Wall sits in, reproductions of a tiny 17th century brooch in the Chea...
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