KNOCK, KNOCK, WHO’S THERE
IN 1999, Christie’s sold a blue front door for £5,750. The same blue door that Richard Curtis cast as the front door of travel-bookshop owner William Thacker in the film Notting Hill. According to Amelia Walker, head of private and iconic collections at the London auction house, a door is ‘an unusual thing to sell. Normally, you only remove a door when you’re doing a complete refurbishment or if you have a very good reason’.
Once you start looking for notable front doors,), or 18, Folgate Street, E1, where, behind the imposing black door and black brick surround, is concealed a museum dedicated to the family of French Huguenot silk weavers who once lived there ().
