Fake 1

For some months now I have been thinking about a new occasional series, along the lines of that for trolleys. There is also the discontinued series of posts about jigsaws and the faking of reference 1.

This new series would be about design. About designs for buildings or things which, for one reason or another, fake or replicate some feature from the past, or which otherwise try to create the impression that, whatever it is, is older than it actually is. There is lots of it about.

Faking which is not necessarily a bad thing, for as they used to say, faking is the sincerest form of flattery going.

And today, it occurs to me that this snap from Balham station would make a good start. What I take to be a brand new, brick-faced lift shaft, part of the drive to make the London transport system wheelie friendly, dressed up to look like old brickwork repurposed, complete with bricked up hole for what is faked up to be a former window.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/another-irritation.html.

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