Posts by Gillian Darley OBE
I seem to remember a poignant afterword.
And the dog …?
Same place that showed stone slate and other building materials? I remember it c 1976 … hope to visit in coming days, on the way nearby.
My everything gone
I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Hail to this volume. Inexplicably under the radar but gold standard team work on the 19th monograph within the heroic Survey of London.
I believe in dog
Tried, so far unsuccessfully …
Hail to this volume. Inexplicably under the radar but gold standard team work on the 19th monograph within the heroic Survey of London.
Wrong green
Villa Palagonia, Palermo - masses of mirror glass and colour adjacent
Thinking hat on. I think the clue lies in France/Italy. Lumiere mysterieuse was Soane’s idee fixe and Sicilian domestic examples inspired him to use mirrors and coloured glass … will keep at it!
Those hands. Caravaggio’s St Jerome in the cathedral in Valletta.
£18 for sparkling water. The Archbishop of Canterbury.
Wes Setter
Think the (excellent) Grasshoppers, congenial hotel looking over the station rooftops, is safe? Please confirm if you can.
My in-house lawyer is with you
Sorry. I am pretty poor at posting on this platform! Or maybe the goat requested privacy or royalties?
Meanwhile a goat in NE Syria munches away alongside the nose of an Iranian missile.An
image which summarises much of the catastrophic situation.
Egad
I sent you a reply via the Soane admin email. But essentially he died in Portland Place: it seems he was merely visiting his daughters in the north.
Fool alert. Within recent days I told someone, oh so authoritatively, that John Carr of York built most of Valletta. Turns out I meant Porto. If it was you, I grovel.
Remember Fleet Street? Spot the heritage building and public space [sic] and weep.
Shout out for bookishness and encouragement for scribblers?!
In Apollo Magazine, November 2018 I wrote about self loathing on the South Bank, the baleful
failure to consider listing the Brutalist complex. Finally, I can breathe a sigh of relief.
In Apollo Magazine, November 2018 I wrote about self loathing on the South Bank, the baleful
failure to consider listing the Brutalist complex. Finally, I can breathe a sigh of relief.
That took its time…. Huge congratulations to C20 Society for persistence!
These boots aren’t going anywhere. Nice tale of Trumpian non delivery as reported by AFP.