Steven Brindle

Historian and conservationist; interested in approaching the past via the visual arts, archaeology, landscape and architecture.

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I signed the petition last night. Have just seen it gain over 1,000 votes in about 30 seconds. This is the worst government in history.

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London, Lost Interiors, from Atlantic Publishing, is out this week. Over 600 images of interiors in London houses, 1880-1950, representing the extraordinary sweep and range of interior design, and (almost) all gone. In all good bookshops.

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@MichaelHen8128 Hi Michael, sorry but no. Depended on finding reproducible pics, and I didn't of those houses.

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My new book, London, Lost Interiors, will be published in October. Over 600 historic photographs of London houses, c. 1880-1950, 90% previously unpublished, showing an extraordinary range of styles. Warm thanks to my wonderful publishers, Atlantic Publications.

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Wells Coates, one of the first Modernist architects in Britain, moved to 18, Yeoman's Row in 1935, and remade this 19C studio for himself. An illustration from my book London, Lost Interiors, coming soon.

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The drawing room at 26, Grosvenor Square, created for Sir George Cooper c. 1901 by the Parisian firm of Anatole Beaumetz. House demolished 1957. A criminal waste or what ?

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Sincere thanks to the Walpole Society and the Berger Prize jury: Architecture in Britain and Ireland has been shortlisted for the 2024 prize.

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This room in Hill Street, Mayfair, was created c. 1924-7 by architect Philip Tilden for Miss Emily Thistlethwaite. She inherited the house aged 72, and redecorated it to suit her cultivated and imaginative taste. London, Lost Interiors will be published in October.

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@SukhmaniSethi Hi Sukhmani, apologies, I didn't see your comment at the time. NB new post about my book also !

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I have at last finished painting my study in Portugal: spent most of two weeks up a stepladder ! Apollo and the Muses, the Greek motifs based on Owen Jones, Grammar of Ornament. Happy with how it has come out !

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@ArtDecoist Hi ArtDecoist. Yes, almost half the book.

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@RogerBowdler Hi Roger, it's Feniscowles Old Hall, my old family home in Lancashire

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I have just repainted our 'wedding anniversary' mural, and finished the architecture. The tromp l'oeil works better this time !

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Finished at last. Two weeks up a ladder doing finishing touches, and my study murals in Portugal are done. Nice to have the room back and the copy of Las Meninas (painted many years ago, result of my raging Velázquez obsession) rehung, though it is a bit big for the space

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A very nice review of my new book, Architecture in Britain and Ireland 1530-1830, by William Whyte in the December issue of the Literary Review, relating it to Sir John Summerson's Architecture in Britain, first published in 1953. Thank you very much, William.

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My book, Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830, will be published by the Paul Mellon Centre on Tuesday, 28 November. Have reached the finishing line, after almost ten years work.

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I have just finished painting the loggia and landscape at my Portuguese home, the Sitio da Barradinha. Very pleased with how it has come out - the perspective really seems to work !

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@InspectorSidell A distinctive ironwork style. George Gilbert Scott designed classical ironwork with a Gothic sensibility. Thanks for posting

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@InspectorSidell It looks like it ! Foreign Office, Whitehall, by any chance ?

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The late Georgian age was the greatest era of urban transformation in Britain. This page from Architecture in Britain and Ireland 1530-1830 conveys the growth of Preston, c. 1774-1844, from population of 6,000 to 54,000. Thanks to Pete Smith and https://t.co/jpjUXk3miS