Magic Carpet • Raymond Honeyman / Ehrman

  • Playing With Pattern: Raymond Honeyman 27 Aug 10

    Even un-made-up, Raymond Honeyman’s tapestry designs are arresting. Indian Garden, for example, stops you in your tracks half-way up the stairs with its richness and depth. Beneath the main... Read More

  • Writing A New Chapter 25 Jun 10

    Last month the scaffolding came down on a £3.1m project to repair and conserve the exterior of one of London’s oldest buildings. Described in its heyday as ‘beyond compare’, Westminster... Read More

  • Arcadia In The City 11 Jun 10

    London’s cityscape is not renowned for magnificent vistas. Stand on the banks of the Thames and the soul does not soar in the way it does in Paris, for instance, by the River Seine. Instead, you... Read More

  • Fluttering Away 28 May 10

    I’ve long prided myself, not always delusively, on my receptivity to nature. I revel in the variety of British landscapes, from the rugged granite uplands of the north, to the softer chalk... Read More

  • Where Have All The Robots Gone? 16 Apr 10

    We’ve had robots of sorts working in factories for decades – by the end of the 1970s Fiat was claiming that its cars were ‘built by robots’ – but these are static machines programmed to do... Read More

  • From Meeting House To Mosque 1 Apr 10

    English Heritage, the Government’s advisor for the historic environment, is known for its custodianship of some of the most important monuments of our history, such as Stonehenge and Hadrian’s... Read More

  • Where Have All The Flowers Gone? 19 Mar 10

    In the hierarchy of British wildlife, flowers come a distant third behind birds and mammals in public recognition. In fact the gap could be widening. Not so long ago, the environmental editor of a... Read More

  • Getting The Joke: Ronald Searle 5 Mar 10

    In Russell Davies’s biography of Ronald Searle, he makes some barbed references to British journalists who seem to think that his subject’s work begins and ends with the St Trinian’s drawings... Read More

  • Something In The Air: Tim Thorpe 5 Feb 10

    Tim Thorpe is 26 – young to be principal of anything – but his musical life already spans 20 years. His is a classic story of falling in love with music, of music springing from almost nowhere at... Read More

  • The Business Of Responsibility 8 Jan 10

    You could be excused for thinking, by its title, that this piece is about to give you the kind of lecture you got as a child from your parents, in an attempt to help you act as a mature human... Read More

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