A new book, 'London: Lost Interiors', explores the lost riches of London’s grand houses. Its author, Steven Brindle, looks at the residences of plutocrats built by the nouveaux riches of the late-Victorian and Edwardian ages, using wonderful images preserved in the Historic England Archive.
Fig 1: The Rococo ballroom, hung with yellow silk, of 41, Grosvenor Square, Mayfair, W1. The house, created in the 1880s by George Devey for shipping magnate Charles H. Wilson, later Lord Nunburnholme, was neo-Jacobean in style. A new book, 'London: Lost Interiors', explores the lost riches of London’s grand houses. Its author, Steven Brindle, looks at the residences of plutocrats built by the nouveaux riches of the late-Victorian and Edwardian ages, using wonderful images preserved in the Historic England Archive.
