Nick Foulkes was commissioned to interview Princess Ira von Fürstenberg for The Aesthete column in the HTSI (How To Spend It) supplement to WeekendFT, an agreeable task.
This fountain at the south end of Bryanston Square looks rather contemporary – at least the base does but actually it hasn’t changed since it was built in the early 1860s.
Yesterday’s post gives, I hope, a tantalising glimpse of a Renaissance man: Sir John Verney, Bt. His obituary, in The Times 5th February 1993, fills out the picture.
The second volume of Chips Channon’s Diaries, edited by Simon Heffer, will be released on Thursday. It covers the period 1938 – 1943, so quite a lot saved up for the third volume.