Top Links #44: Clean Steel, Fine Claret and Dancing Bear

Some refreshing links for your Boxing Day enjoyment

Kokoshka at the the Savoy

Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka spent considerable time in London at The Savoy, where he created some of his most famous London works: ‘Here I am living on the 8th floor of the smartest hotel in Europe. I have to live this high up because from here I can paint the broadest vista of the Thames!’ he noted. h/t Famous Hotels