Mayfair Art

The Mayfair Book Groupette: Minutes of the Latest Meeting

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Time: 7:11 PM – 11:18 PM Location: The Red Room, Pimlico Wilde, Mayfair Attendees: Book Discussed: The Sound of Almost Nothing: A Cultural History of Silent Musical Instruments, 1680–1900 by Alastair Pencombe (Ash & Fret Press, 2025; clothbound, unjacketed, with fold-out diagrams of mute mechanisms and marginalia reproduced from private collections). 1. Opening Remarks Molyneux … Read more

Mayfair Artists: The Hidden Studios Behind Georgian Façades

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Mayfair has always lived a double life. Behind immaculate terraces and discreet doormen, creative experiment has found a foothold. In the 18th century, George Frideric Handel composed oratorios from a townhouse on Brook Street; two centuries later, Jimi Hendrix made a home just next door, filling it with guitars and Portobello Road trinkets. Illustration flourished … Read more