ORNAMENTAL PASSIONS

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

Friday, 24 October 2014

Hyde Park, London WC2

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The Joy of Life is by T.B. (Thomas Bayliss) Huxley-Jones and was created in 1963. It was the last work commissioned by the Constance Fund...
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Monday, 13 October 2014

Royal Geographical Society, Lowther Lodge, Kensington Gore SW7

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The figures of two great explorers enliven the blank wall of the Royal Geographic Society's lecture hall, Ernest Shackleton and David ...
Friday, 10 October 2014

Lower Grosvenor Gardens SW1

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The French sculptor Georges Malissard was noted for his statues of horses, often shown with jockeys, polo players, soldiers and, in the ca...
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Thursday, 9 October 2014

Lower Grosvenor Gardens SW1

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An Alien has landed next to Victoria station, and no-one is taking a blind bit of notice. The sculpture, entitled Alien, was plonked in ...
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Saturday, 6 September 2014

St Paul's Churchyard EC4

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Becket depicts the Archbishop in the agony of death, his right hand extended as if to ward off the blows of his knightly assassins. The pl...
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Saturday, 9 August 2014

Bath House Lofts, 19 Spa Road SE16

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This extraordinary Greek Revival building looks as though it was built in the 1820s (think British Museum) but was in fact built in the 1...
Thursday, 7 August 2014

Bermondsey Health Centre, Grange Road SE1

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Bermondsey Health Centre is a classic Moderne style building with Art Deco flourishes (look at those vertical streaks of glass to either s...
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