Part architectural salvage, part urban gyratory, Brunswick House in London’s Vauxhall is filled with unexpected treasures
Brunswick House, 30 Wandsworth Road, London SW8 (020 7720 2926). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £65-£100
It takes enormous amounts of hard work to seem effortless. There’s the dancer who can appear to hold in the air for a quarter of a second longer than is strictly decent, as if the rules of gravity don’t quite apply to them as to others; there’s the jazz pianist whose blurred fingers pick the perfect pattern from one end of the keyboard to the other; or the painter who can drop a line on to the canvas which is the very essence of the sitter’s profile, with barely a flick of the wrist. They do not break sweat while doing so for one reason and one reason only: they did all their sweating elsewhere. They practised and practised again so that, when the moment came, you couldn’t see their workings in the margins.
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