At the heart of Ben Pentreath’s magic is his ability to reinvent the past, as Giles Kime explains.
My colleague Huon Mallalieu invoked Tancredi Falconeri in Lampedusa’s The Leopard when he wrote about the recent sale of a set of chairs specified by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Country Life offices he designed on Tavistock Street in Covent Garden: ‘Everything must change so that everything can stay the same.’
The necessity for venerable enterprises to evolve was a…
