Hints and tips:
...Under “P for Pornographer” we find Henry Spencer Ashbee, a Victorian businessman who may also have been the author of My Secret Life, one of the most notorious erotic memoirs ever published....
...AH Mackmurdo was born in the year of the Great Exhibition, 1851, his father a well-to-do chemicals manufacturer....
...His great friend, the designer CR Ashbee, lived in Chelsea’s Cheyne Walk, at The Magpie and Stump, a house Ashbee had redecorated with plain timber panels that Norman emulated throughout Thorpe Lodge....
...MacCarthy has written biographies of William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee, leaders of the British Arts and Crafts movement....
...Photograph: Mark Ashbee...
...I am well aware of the arguments that were presented to justify the restoration. But they have been rebutted, with no little ferocity. In the end it comes down to taste....
...Davey Lighting produces industrial-style, marine-inspired lighting in materials that weather well and develop patinas, such as bronze, copper and brass....
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