STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

oh, i'm so jealous! i've only spent 3 days in london so i don't have much advice.

first things first, obviously you have to go to the national gallery, but you have to go there soon because there is a raphael exhibit that ends on january 16th. i'm not even a big raphael fan, but i would kill to go because there are going to be a number of major works from other collections in this exhibit.

the one thing that i absolutely loved in london was the john soane museum. soane was an architect in the late 18th-early 19th century and was a bit of an eccentric. he was obsessed with classical art and architecture and filled his house with all sorts of sculpture and architectural fragments because he wanted to create a learning center for young architects. there is also an amazing panelled room that contains the hogarth series "the rake's progress." i was actually in london with one of my college seminars so we had studied soane and we had a private tour, but i think many people would find the museum interesting. at the very least, it's a curiousity.

http://www.soane.org/

oh the only things i can remember in terms of shopping and food is that i really liked selfridges (department store) and wagamama (hip asian restaurant chain).

-- Edited by cc at 22:03, 2005-01-03

Say hi to the baglady or me. She is doing a workshop for her graduate degree somewhere outside of London. Lucky devils.