I attended a meeting yesterday to look at plans for the improvement of the public realm on Old Bond Street. Our attention was drawn to the view of the so-called Ferragamo building on the corner of Old Bond Street and Burlington Gardens. I had never really looked at it with its flèche reminiscent of Ste. Chapelle. It was built in the mid-1920s for Atkinson’s, a firm of parfumiers, and has prominent public lettering recording this:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
You are not alone. I have passed that building time and again, for sixty years at least, and have never looked at it . Thank you
Also worth a mention for its carillon – the only one in London apparently – which is still played (live) on Friday evenings. A remarkable sound, which echoes around above the emptying streets: it’s well nigh impossible to work out where the music is coming from.
Dear Simon, Are you sure it’s only on Fridays ? It seems to me to play a bit too loudly and for too long every day. Charles