I went to an event in Highgate Cemetery organised by the Architecture Foundation. Sam Jacob, late of FAT, has erected a structure which replicates the mausoleum designed but never built by Adolf Loos in 1921 in memory of the art historian, Max Dvorák, following Loos’s belief that ‘only a very small part of architecture belongs to the realm of art: the tomb and the monument’. It has a ghostly orange presence:-
Meanwhile, the streets of the cemetery, so well maintained by its Friends, lie beyond:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
What an amazing place it is ! Apart from Karl Marx, it’s the resting place of George Eliot and her husband, George Henry Lewes; Christina Rossetti and Lizzie Siddal, and Michael Faraday.
In recent years Eric Hobsbawm, Ralph Richardson and Jean Simmons have been buried here, and two friends of mine – Paul Foot and Corin Redgrave. It’s good that nature has been allowed to reclaim it with trees and shrubs.
I should add to Mark Fisher’s comment that my master and friend Raphael Samuel is also there. And Earnest Fenollosa, historian of Japanese art.
don’t think they ever married (George Eliot and Lewes)… best e