Articles by Steven Brindle

Fig 2: Lord Brassey’s Indian Museum, 24, Park Lane, Mayfair, W1. This Rajput-style interior, designed by Caspar Purdon Clarke, head of the Indian section of the South Kensington Museum, was originally made by Indian craftsmen for the Indian & Colonial Exhibition of 1886. The room was posthumously presented to Hastings, East Sussex, and, today, forms the ‘Durbar Hall’ of the town museum. ©Historic England Archive

London's Lost Interiors: Inside the houses of the capital's plutocrats in the days when money was literally no object

A new book, 'London: Lost Interiors', explores the lost riches of London’s grand houses. Its author, Steven Brindle, looks at the residences of plutocrats built by the nouveaux riches of the late-Victorian and Edwardian ages, using wonderful images preserved in the Historic England Archive.

'We cannot have beauty without paying for it': The glorious revival of Rochdale's Town Hall

A major restoration project has brought one of Britain's greatest Victorian buildings back to splendour and life. Steven Brindle explains the extraordinary story of how it came to be.

By Steven Brindle Published 5 May 24
The Englishness of English architecture

A major new survey of architecture in Britain and Ireland from 1530 to 1830 will be published this autumn. Its author, Steven Brindle, teases out the qualities of one of its most elusive central themes.

By Steven Brindle Published 29 October 23

Steven Brindle

London's Lost Interiors: Inside the houses of the capital's plutocrats in the days when money was literally no object

'We cannot have beauty without paying for it': The glorious revival of Rochdale's Town Hall

The Englishness of English architecture