LETTERS FROM LONDON

A city that opens its doors for a few weeks each year, and keeps the rest for the people who work in it. Letters From London follows that calendar, from the fairs everyone attends to the smaller openings worth leaving them for. Inside: the workshops still making by hand behind unmarked doors, the factories and heritage trades that supplied the Empire and now supply the world, the interiors that won their year, and architecture from Isokon to Trellick. We also visit Sir John Soane’s Museum, where an Act of Parliament has forbidden anything from being moved since 1837, including the hinged picture-room walls that open like a cabinet. The hotels worth the money and the tables worth crossing town for.

Each edition carries the city’s palette, drawn here from Soane’s picture-room green and Clerkenwell brick; notes on sourcing in London, from lead times to the makers who still answer the phone; and a letter to the city at the back.