Christmas 2025

 

The shops on Bond Street never fail to delight.

Finally Annabel's club in Berkeley Square was inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia with an open wardrobe spilling out frosted trees, white roses and a porcelain Aslan Lion. This year it is supporting The Caring Family Foundation's food.

Christmas 2025

 

A day in London with my daughter started off in Rules cocktail bar.

Covent Garden with its festive lego display.

The bells and baubles were not lego.

Fortnum and Mason decorated as an advent calendar.

Saville Row, home to bespoke tailoring.

Burlington Arcade.

A Victorian arcade.

New Bond Street.

More Christmas decorations to follow.

Grayson Perry

 Last month I went to see an exhibition of Grayson Perry's work at the Wallace Collection in London. Perry is a British artist best known for his ceramics and tapestries. He is also a cross dresser with an alto ego called Clare. For this exhibition, Delusions of Grandeur, he had created another alter ego, Shirley Smith. The fictional Smith considers herself the heir to the Wallace Collection. The exhibition is curated by Perry around Shirley's life and artistic obsessions, including family trees and the Wallace Collection itself. I have included Perry's explanations and insights into his work.

Perry dressed as Shirley seated in the Wallace Collection Museum.