Stephen Bayley

These foolish things | 9 June 2016

As the Serpentine Gallery unveils its new Pavilion and Summer Houses, Stephen Bayley pays tribute to the nation’s great useless ruined castles, temples of virtue, labyrinths, alcoves and towers

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