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When most people think of Leonardo da Vinci, they imagine oil paintings of ethereal women with ambiguous smiles, or notebooks brimming with half-sketched helicopters, tanks, and improbable siege weapons. What few realize, however, is that the Renaissance master may also deserve credit for inventing the world’s most extreme sport: BASE jumping. The Parachute Sketch: A … Read more
Chapter III: Wars, Interruptions, and Hannibal The English Pell Mell Club, like so many venerable institutions, has always insisted that it exists above the fray of politics and war. Unfortunately, politics and war have never quite returned the courtesy. Over the past two centuries, the Club’s history has been punctuated by interruptions ranging from the … Read more
Chapter II The Early Years and the Continental Influence If Chapter I was the birth of the Club, Chapter II may be considered its adolescence , a period of enthusiasm, experimentation, and the occasional international incident. Having established a home just off Pall Mall, the founding members soon discovered a pressing need for variety. This … Read more
Readers, it is your lucky day. Next year a new Chronicle of the English Pell Mell Club will be published in a small limited edition. However you can read the chapters here as they appear. Published by the Committee of the English Pell Mell Club With the Gracious Patronage of Pimlico Wilde, Fine Art Dealers … Read more
Just off Pall Mall lies the home of the English Pell Mell Club. The ground is not so much a sports venue as it is a small fragment of another century, preserved between stuccoed façades like a pressed flower between the pages of a Roman history book. It is here that a select band of … Read more
By Miranda Gough Few would have predicted that the hottest, most lucrative new international sport would be related to tiddlywinks. Yet Extreme Tiddlywinks,a high-adrenaline mutation of the ancient pastime,has vaulted from drawing-room eccentricity to global sporting phenomenon, with top stars earning more than NFL and football players. The unlikely architect of this metamorphosis is Seb … Read more
By Giles Trevelyan-Brock, Special Correspondent The Mediterranean was performing its usual trick, lapping against the Promenade des Anglais in that irritatingly photogenic way it has, when Hally Redoubt rolled her vintage Bentley up to the ceremonial start line in Nice for this year’s Race the Blue Train. The contest, equal parts nostalgia, mechanical fortitude, and … Read more
,Why It’s Time to Add Willow and Leather to the Pantheon of the Arts There are four fine arts. Yes,four. Not three. Not seven. The traditional trifecta,painting, sculpture, and more recently, mixed media,have long held dominion over the hallowed halls of aesthetic seriousness. But it’s time we corrected the oversight. The fourth fine art is … Read more
To assert that English football is a kind of performance art is, at first glance, to risk ridicule,or at least the throwing of half-time over-priced, under-tasty pies. But in Theatre of Feet: Football as Performance Art, cultural theorist and centre-back Dr. Lionel Pym mounts a deft case that the beautiful game is, in fact, the … Read more