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| "The painting brings to mind Chinese and Japanese calligraphy" |
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| "Three dimensioalised abstract paintings ... soft in shape" |
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| "A painterly openness and freedom that stops just in time ... they carry just enough making and mark making" |
The shop has exciting work by a range of ceramic artists -
Round the corner on Bury Place is the
London Review Bookshop (and Cake Shop); I dared not go in, but it currently has tempting London-themed books in the window. Titles include Mindful London; Walks of Art; Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhood; and Freedom Pass London. The tube map in the background has stations renamed with names of galleries and museums near them -
Next door,
Blade Rubber has supplies for stamping and other paper arts, and makes stamps to order -
Next door to Blade Rubber,
Enitharmon Books always has lovely editions in the window -
Past Truckles Yard (which now boasts a shoe shop concentrating on small sizes) is Russell Chambers, where Bertrand Russell, philosopher and campaigner for peace, lived from 1911 to 1916 (in flat 34) -
Across the street - unnoticed till now, though I've been walking along that street since 1983 - next to the bay windows of Museum Chambers, is "Erhardt - 1884", a rather stark building -
3 comments:
Your description of Bury Place brings a flood of delicious memories. It has been a favourite spot for me while visiting London in years past. I do hope I have a chance to experience it again, perhaps next summer.
Re the Erhardt building at 7 Bury Place, the Trinitarian Bible Society were there from 1904 to 1967 and have just issued a 190th Anniversary edition of their magazine with a mock-antique cover and a picture of 7 Bury Place when they were there:
https://www.tbsbibles.org/resource/collection/01C074CC-748F-4C67-86AC-A9926A25241A/QR637.pdf
Incidentally their next location (217 Kingston Road, Wimbledon, from 1967 to 1994) is also featured at a Blogspot blog: http://faded-london.blogspot.com/2009/11/look-out-kingston-road-south-wimbledon.html
Thanks, for that information, Peter, and the link to the Faded London blog!
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