In the early 1870s, an émigré painter watched from a railway footbridge as a steam engine left a station on London’s suburban fringe. His name was Camille Pissarro and he was developing a style of plein-air painting that would soon be called “Impressionism.” Pissarro and a fellow émigré, Claude Monet, only stayed in London for…
Even for someone who loves getting lost in museums — especially “everything museums” like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York — London’s Victoria and Albert Museum might have been my Waterloo. The statistics are daunting: 5,000 years of artistic production with more than 60,000 works on view (from a collection of some 2.8…
Britain’s fashion brands have long looked to the United States for a chance to supersize sales — with varying degrees of success. For every Boden, there is a Topshop, Ted Baker or Hunter Boots that failed to successfully crack the market. After all, the United States is much larger, more diverse and already has plenty…
More than 75 timepieces and jewels by Van Cleef & Arpels will be on display at Cromwell Place, a gallery space in the South Kensington neighborhood of London, from May 26 to June 9. It will be the brand’s first watch-focused exhibition in Britain, according to Rainer Bernard, director of watchmaking research and development. “Poetry…
Clustered outside a tube station, 20 or so Londoners were preparing to roam around Tufnell Park, which is not actually a park, in their role as part of a Ramblers group, who do not, by the most rigid definition, ramble. (That typically requires a roam through the countryside.) They huddled under street lamps for the…
The warning was stern: Do not enter the water. Not because of the tide. Not because of sharks. Because of the sewage. For almost two centuries, rowers from Oxford University have raced their rivals from Cambridge in a contest that typically ends with jubilant members of the victorious crew jumping into the River Thames in…
“Buy, buy, buy,” a bargoer shouted just after 6:30 on a recent Wednesday evening. He grabbed two shot glasses, vodka sluicing over his hands. The 411, a pub in London, usually sells about £3,000 worth of drinks (about $3,800) on a weeknight. But on another recent Wednesday, it brought in £18,300 — more than $23,000…
Nunhead Green | £795,000 ($1.01 million) A semi-attached, renovated two-bedroom, one-bath Victorian cottage with a contemporary interior and front and rear gardens. This updated house, with a traditional Victorian exterior and contemporary interior, is on a quiet street in Southeast London’s Nunhead Green Conservation Area, close to a small village area with a new community…
It was the Sunday of London Fashion Week and the last model had just stepped off the runway at the JW Anderson show. A heaving scrum soon descended on the designer, a sea of phones held aloft like antennas. Jonathan Anderson’s collection had been a nostalgic British jumble of chunky knits and trench coats, school…
About two years ago, a new tenant moved into Savile Row, the London street known as a center of men’s tailoring for more than 200 years. Rather than custom-made wool trousers and silk-lined jackets, however, Arthur Sleep sells bespoke shoes for men, women and children, crafted by hand in as few as five hours by…
