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The café in Holland Park
1 Holland Park heavy bomb damage during 4 Design Museum
World War II; the remains are
Abbotsbury Rd W14. Map 9 B5. 224–238, Kensington High St W8.
Tel 020 7361 3003 to book facilities. now used as a youth hostel. Map 9 C5. Tel 020 7940 8790. 1
1 Holland Park, High Street Outbuildings are put to High St Kensington, Earls Court,
Kensington, Notting Hill Gate. various uses: exhibitions are Holland Park. Open 10am–6pm daily
Open 7:30am–dusk daily (hours are held in the orangery and the (last adm: 5pm). Closed 25 & 26 Dec.
flexible depending on season). ice house, and the old Garden - =7 ∑ designmuseum.org
Closed 25 Dec. 0 - Open­air Ballroom is now a restaurant.
opera, theatre, dance. Information: This Grade II­listed building
Tel 020 7361 3570. Art exhibitions Apr. houses one permanent and
See Entertainment pp340–41. 3 Leighton House two temporary galleries under
∑ rbkc.gov.uk an architecturally remarkable
12 Holland Park Rd W14. Map 17 B1.
Tel 020 7602 3316. 1 High St Ken­ roof. Devoted solely to modern
This small but delightful park, sington. Open 10am–5:30pm Wed– and contemporary design, and
more wooded and intimate Mon (to 9pm select Thu). Closed its impact on our lives, the
than the large royal parks to its 1 Jan, 25 Dec. & 8 3pm Wed & Sun museum features temporary
east (Hyde Park and Kensington or by appt for groups. = ^ exhibitions, a library, auditorium,
Gardens, see pp212–13), was Concerts, exhibitions, talks. ∑ rbkc. a learning centre, restaurant
opened in 1952 on what gov.uk/subsites/museums.aspx and shops.
remained of the grounds of
Holland House – the rest had Built for respected Victorian 5 18 Stafford
been sold off in the late 19th painter Lord Leighton in 1864–79,
century for the construction of the house has been preserved Terrace
new, large houses. The park still with its opulent decoration as an 18 Stafford Terrace W8. Map 9 C5.
contains some of the formal extraordinary monument to Tel 020 7602 3316 Mon–Fri; 020 7938
gardens laid out in the early Victorian aesthetics. The highlight 1295 Sat & Sun. 1 High St Kensing­
19th century. There is also a is the Arab Hall, added in 1879 to ton. Open 2–5:30pm Wed, Sat & Sun.
Japanese garden, created for house Leighton’s collection of & 8 11am Wed, Sat & Sun
the 1991 London Festival of Islamic tiles, some inscribed with (costumed tour Sat); book ahead.
Japan. The park is full of wildlife, text from the Koran. There are = ∑ rbkc.gov.uk/subsites/
including peacocks. paintings and drawings displayed museums.aspx
including some by Edward Burne­
2 Holland House Jones, John Millais, G F Watts and The former home of Linley
Sambourne, 18 Stafford Terrace,
many works by Leighton himself.
Holland Park W8. Map 9 B5. 1 was built in about 1870. It has
Holland Park, High Street Kensington. undergone a major renovation
Hostel Tel 020 7870 9629. but remains much as Sambourne
furnished it – in the Victorian
During its heyday in the 19th manner, with Oriental ornaments
century, this was a noted centre and heavy velvet drapes.
of social and political intrigue. Sambourne was a cartoonist for
Statesmen such as Lord the satirical magazine Punch;
Palmerston mixed here with drawings cram the walls of the
the likes of the poet Lord Byron. house. Some rooms have William
The Jacobean house suffered Original tiling in Holland House Morris wallpaper (see p253).

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