London Zoo

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely…

London Zoo, Regent's Park, NW1

…and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

From Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

Institute of Education

“Mother was an extremely intelligent person. Quite sensuous, in many ways.”

Denys Lasdun's Institute of Education, Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, Camden, WC1H

She looked at me with a kind of fresh acuteness.

Denys Lasdun's Institute of Education, Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, Camden, WC1H

“Do you find me terribly cold?”

Denys Lasdun's Institute of Education, Bedford Way, Bloomsbury, Camden, WC1H

From JD Salinger’s For Esmé-with Love and Squalor (1950)

The East Hill (1988)

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away…

The Pixies' Surfa Rosa, The East Hill, Alma Road, Wandsworth, SW18

…and he could not find it.

From Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)