Daisy Dunn

The art of the high street

Daisy Dunn on the painters who celebrate shop fronts

‘People’s Flowers’, 1971, Richard Estes. Credit: Alamy Stock Photo/Artelan

I can no longer remember when it was that high streets did not all look the same. The architectural writer James Maude Richards bemoaned the disappearance of local character from our shops as early as 1938, but even so he could include a plumassier, submarine engineer and shop of model transport in his winsome introduction to the high street.

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