For those of you who, like me, enjoy the English mystery writers of the between the wars period of the '20's and '30's, the title of this piece will ring a bell as the address of the inimitable Lord Peter Wimsey. Created by Dorothy Sayers and beloved of millions of detective fans the world over. 110 on Piccadilly is now the entrance to the ball room of the Park Lane Hotel, in fact, the entire corner of Park Lane and Piccadilly (and up each street for a good ways) is taken up by the sizable hotel. I walked by there when I was last in London, gazed up and paid my homage to Lord Peter, Bunter and the rest of Sayers's well drawn and well loved characters.
The background of the piece is a shot from Green Park of the facade of 110 Piccadilly, it is bordered by black satin ribbon held down by brass stampings rubbed with different colours of Staz-On ink. A Mary Beth Shaw stencil is applied in brilliant copper. A stamping of a female hand presents a vintage calling card topped by Lord Peter's ubiquitous monocle.
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