Paul Boughton

Surya Hotels has announced the start of a £25 million restoration project for Theobalds Park, the Grade II listed Georgian mansion, which was once the home of Lady Valerie Meux until 1910. The house is set within 55 acres of Hertfordshire parkland and is just 10 miles north of Central London and minutes from the M25. The house was converted into a hotel in the 1990s and previously owned by the De Vere Group. The property was most recently operated by Birch, which closed the site in November...

Does art speak to you? If so, what does it say? And what would James McNeill Whistler’s   1881’s Harmony in Pink and Grey (Portrait of...

The Stuyvesant Theatre, New York, 1909. Here was a special room. To some, it was an office or study, to others, a workshop. This was the...