Happy in the crypt beneath John Soane’s St John on Bethnal Green of 1828, Piotr Frac works peacefully making beautiful stained glass while the world passes by at this busiest of East End crossroads.
The museum also displays interesting architectural pieces like centuries-old furniture and stained glass windows, in addition to more modern paintings, prints and drawings, sculptures and photography.
Stained glass windows, made to satisfy the Victorian church building boom, accounted for a large portion of production and profit during the early part of the James Powell & Sons period. It was not ...