Even in ordinary times, it would be hard to read about Richard and Isabel Burton without catching a serious case of wanderlust. In the midst of England’s third national lockdown, however, and a bleak winter to boot, descriptions of the Victorian couple’s moonlit strolls through the botanical gardens of Rio, or nights under canvas in the Syrian desert, proved too much for this north Londoner.
A Rage to Live, the title of Mary S. Lovell’s biography of the pair, perfectly summed up my state of mind after months of enforced hibernation, and I decided to throw caution to the wind, with the Burtons as inspiration: I would live; I would explore; I would travel – all the way to that foreign land, south London.
Las revoluciones del siglo XVIII que nos llevaron a casarnos por amor
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Pasión, amor prohibido, ternura y erotismo, inmortalizados en el arte
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This 11m-high mural commission is part of Leighton House Museum s restoration project Courtesy of Leighton House Museum and the artist
Hidden in a reasonably unassuming house in London s upmarket borough of Kensington and Chelsea is the Leighton House Museum, a wunderkammer of Islamic art and architecture. Now the traditional Middle Eastern decor is getting a permanent contemporary addition. As part of the building s major £7.8m refurbishment, which began in 2008 and is due to be completed this year, an 11m-high, hand-painted mural by the Iranian artist Shahrzad Ghaffari will decorate the walls of a new helical staircase.
The work, titled
Oneness, is made up of turquoise, calligraphic brushstrokes that form a central motif inspired by the traditional designs of the Middle Eastern tiles in Leighton House Museum’s Arab Hall. Its spiralling form adopts the helical structure of the staircase. A fusion of Eastern and Western culture, the words will weave into a