Andrew Gonsalves
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Regency dandy mistakenly born in 1983.

I used to be corporate. Then I gave it all up to travel and "follow my dreams." Which was a fantastic idea at the start of a global recession. Now I write, and study and spend hours on Wikipedia reading about long-dead emperors.

As a child I wanted to be a princess. Not because I wanted a prince charming, but because I wanted a title and a palace. I dislike republicanism, I think it makes for bad architecture.

These ramblings are not to be taken too seriously. Unless you agree with them, in which case let's be friends.

Blog Entries by Andrew Gonsalves

Beauty is in the Eye of the Illustrator

(1) Comments | Posted 31 July 2012 | (00:00)

Prodigy is quite a strong word, and it's not a term that should be too readily thrown about, but it's hard not to look at Joseph Larkowsky without the word popping into your head.

At the ripe old age of 20 Joseph's illustrations have graced high street...

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Auto Art

(0) Comments | Posted 28 July 2012 | (00:00)

BMW's Art Cars programme has been running for almost 40 years now. Every now and then the Bavarian manufacturer hands a pristine, straight-off-the-production-line, car to an artist of note and tells them to use it as their canvas.

The ICA has brought together all 18 of these automotive installations and...

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Common Sense 1 - Religion 0

(110) Comments | Posted 17 July 2012 | (00:00)

There were a fair few column inches devoted to a ruling in a German court that circumcision for non-medical reasons is an assault, and interferes with a child's right to determine his own religion.

A number of commentators have said that the ruling amounts to some form of religious persecution...

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Arch de Triomphe

(0) Comments | Posted 4 April 2012 | (00:00)

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There are a number of celebrated Victorian buildings peppering this fair isle of ours.

Highclere Castle, made famous by Downton Abbey, the Natural History Museum, the gothic splendour of the Palace of Westminster, the civic pride embodied by Manchester's imposing town hall. All...

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How to Make a Beautiful Building - Have a King Commission It

(13) Comments | Posted 12 March 2012 | (23:00)

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There are a number of reasons why I'm a monarchist. The sense of history, the pomp and circumstance, the fact that the Windsors, or the Bourbons or the Bernardottes are a tangible link to a past that was probably better than the present (if...

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Why Great Design Has No Place in Museums

(0) Comments | Posted 28 February 2012 | (12:34)

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This is possibly one of the most beautiful examples of motor car I have ever seen. It's a Citroën SM, built between 1970 and 1975. It was fiendishly modern at the time it was made, bettering anything we could produce here. Lee Majors and...

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