Protecting London’s past

保护伦敦的过去

The Urbanist

艺术

2024-11-15

30 分钟
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We explore some iconic parts of London’s past through ‘London Lost Interiors’, a book revealing the great indoors of the UK capital. Plus: a cylindrical example of brutalist architecture, Space House, which has been preserved for future generations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  • Hello and welcome to the Urbanist Monocles.

  • Program, all about the built environment.

  • I'm your host, Andrew Tuck.

  • Coming up, interior decoration and design really is an art form, but it's also a very fragile and fugitive one.

  • We explore some iconic parts of London's past, both interior and and exterior.

  • They've risked being lost to time or forgotten about entirely.

  • Firstly, we open a book revealing the historic interiors of the UK capital through a curated collection of archive photography.

  • Then we look at a shining example of brutalist architecture in the city and what has been done to ensure it's preserved for future generations.

  • That's all coming up over the next 30 minutes right here on the Urbanist, with me, Andrew Tuck.

  • Okay, we're going to start today with a look back in time inside some of London's finest interiors that may have otherwise not been accessible to the general public.

  • Historian Stephen Brindle has recently released a book titled London Lost Interiors, which explores the history of design in the UK capital between 1880 and 1950.

  • 650 black and white archive photographs give readers a window into a lost world, revealing changing tastes in fashion, art and design from the Victorian age to the post war years of austerity.

  • And I'm happy to say that I'm joined now by Stephen here in the studio.

  • Stephen, thank you so much for being here.

  • Now, tell us first of all how you put this together.

  • There's an archive of all these amazing images, isn't there?

  • Well, the archive belongs to Historic England.

  • Used to be half of English heritage before it divided, and before that it was called the National Monument Record.

  • And it's a vast, vast archive of some something like 8 or 9 million images.

  • But among them, there are whole individual collections.