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Façades do not present us at our best, no matter how carefully coiffured, or disarmingly déclassé. Take Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre: as a Carolean redux of Rome’s Theatre of Marcellus, it’s imperial – self-consciously theatrical. Knowing that its architect, Sir Christopher Wren, employed an ingenious system of self-supporting beams to achieve a flat ceiling hardly helps, as walkingContinue reading “Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes: Penny Boxall’s Ship of the Line”