Gilded Drainpipes
E.S. Turner: London, 10 June 1999
The London Rich: The Creation of a Great City from 1666 to the Present
by Peter Thorold.
Viking, 374 pp., £25, June 1999,0 670 87480 9 Show More
by Peter Thorold.
Viking, 374 pp., £25, June 1999,
The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches: Style and Status in Victorian and Edwardian Architecture
by Mordaunt Crook.
Murray, 354 pp., £25, May 1999,0 7195 6040 3 Show More
by Mordaunt Crook.
Murray, 354 pp., £25, May 1999,
“... addled Mary as the wellhead of wealth scarcely to be imagined is part of legend. To the admirable Thomas Cubitt goes the major credit for replacing Mary’s Thameside swamps with the patrician squares and terraces of Belgravia. Meanwhile John Nash, no foe to the rich, was erecting the haughty villas of Regent’s Park and designing a far finer Regent Street ... ”