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Detmar Blow’s painting of the east end of the chapel at King’s College, Cambridge, showing his reredos and panelling

Why Rubens should go

19 January 2013

The Blow family has had its disasters. There has been madness, murder and suicides. But before those mishaps there was a good man, my grandfather Detmar Blow. In the 1900s… Read more

Burghley House in Lincolnshire provides an Ancestors in the Attic audiovisual introduction to the house

Fact and fantasy

20 October 2012

Britain’s country houses were constantly in the news a generation ago. In 1974 The Destruction of the Country House, an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum curated by Roy… Read more

Gilbert Scott’s Battersea Power Station, about to be transformed into a hotel, flats, offices and entertainment area

Building on the past

29 September 2012

London was an industrial city until remarkably recently. It seems extraordinary now, but Bankside Power Station was built in 1947, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, to burn oil right on… Read more

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The art of architecture

18 June 2011

Leighton House, studio-home of Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830–96), is one of my favourite museums, and always a treat to visit. Leighton House, studio-home of Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830–96), is one… Read more