Lavish interiors

May 2, 2020October 26, 2020 / mikeosbornphoto / 5 Comments

I lived in London for 16 years before moving north to Manchester in 2016. For years I roamed around the capital city with my camera, going inside many beautiful buildings.

A favourite weekend of the year was when Open House London enabled access to many premises. There were so many lavish rooms to enjoy and photograph.

The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown has made photography more difficult. That’s why I decided to trawl my archive and revisit some favourite shots. Many have been re-edited to suit my evolving tastes and sensibilities, although architecture stands the test of time. Please enjoy!

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: Heal’s

: Fitzrovia Chapel

: The Shard

: Tate Modern

: London Central Mosque

: King’s Cross Station

: New West End Synagogue

: Strawberry Hill House

: Queen’s House, Greenwich

: Tottenham Court Road station

: Gurdwara (Sikh Temple), Southall

: Old Custom House

: Tate Modern

: Olympia

: Tate Britain

Upwardly retail

August 21, 2016August 19, 2016 / mikeosbornphoto / 21 Comments

This is not your average set of stairs in a shop. The Brewer Staircase, which opened in 1916, is found in furniture store Heal’s in the West End of London. Its dizzyingly hypnotic, elegantly illuminated spirals are a whirl of geometric wonder. Needless to say, it has been photographed endlessly, but this was not enough to stop me from capturing it myself. From lying flat on the floor at the base of the stairway to moments of vertigo at the top, this was an assignment to match Greenwich’s beautiful Tulip stairs.

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Heal & Son