A Polite Request

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A Place Like No Other: artistry and artifice at the glorious Sambourne House

The Kensington home of Victorian illustrator Linley Sambourne, known for his cartoons in ‘Punch’ magazine, is among the finest examples of Aesthetic interiors still surviving in London. But it’s also a rather canny creation, a self-aware assertion of an up-and-coming artist trying to cement his status. As it prepares to reopen to the public for the first time since 2019, we consider its coruscating complexities

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words: Grace McCloud
photography: Ellen Hancock
production: Harry Cave

A Place Like No Other: artistry and artifice at the glorious Sambourne House

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