Post-Frieze, I went off piste to visit the Blue Mountain School, a fascinating temple to the most rigorous, Shaker-like, environmental, anti-consumerism: four floors of exhibition space and one of a shrine to Nuno Mendes, all designed by 6a in a deliberately rough-shod way.

I wasn’t allowed to photograph the basement archive where old collections from Hostem are stored in rolling metal racks.

Upstairs is gallery space showing work by Valentin Loellmann, a conceptual furniture maker:-

On the floor above is more work by Loellmann and a small selection of ceramics:-

And then best of all is the hanging metal staircase up to the private room on the top floor:-

Pablo Bronstein has done a glamorous drawing of the entrance to Hayfield Passage:-

I’m glad to see the romanticization of the Mile End Road:-

I spent yesterday at Frieze Masters with the vetting committee for Sculpture and Works of Art.   It was a pleasure looking closely at objects with a group of museum experts, starting with Sam Fogg’s medieval gallery, including a fine Spanish 11th. Century capital:-

A marble relief of Augustus thought to be by Mino da Fiesole:-

And a wonderful Nottingham alabaster:-

Hauser and Wirth have got a stand reconstructing the tastes and artistic interests of Stephen Spender, including drawings of him by Henry Moore and Hockney, and very beautiful works by Frank Auerbach:-

Georg Laue has a beautiful late medieval Crucifixion:-

And a remarkable late seventeenth-century ivory relief:-

Finally (at least, for today), a German seventeenth-century Crucifixion:-

Having spent much of the day at Frieze Masters, I thought I should pay my respects to Nicholas Grimshaw’s Sainsbury’s in Camden Town, one of his first big projects in London and still with more than a hint of Utopian modernism, particularly in the tubular housing on the Grand Union Canal behind, as expressively modern as any housing before or since.

The street front:-

And the view from the canal:-

In writing about the Burlington Fine Arts Club last night, I realised that it used to occupy one of the more interesting and unusual houses on the west side of Savile Row – originally built as part of Lord Burlington’s development of the streets north of Burlington House and then somewhat Egyptianised in the early nineteenth century when it was lived in by George Basevi, the pupil of John Soane, who spent three years studying in Rome, and was later responsible for the design of Belgrave Square and the Fitzilliam Museum. Oddly enough, before it became the Burlington Fine Arts Club, it was lived in by Dr. Richard King, a surgeon and Arctic explorer who founded the Ethnological Society of London:-