Those of us with deep pockets will likely have checked out some seriously luxurious pianos. Steinway & Sons, whose 170th anniversary concert took place at the Wigmore Hall on 10 November, recently released its limited edition ‘The London’ piano, a collaboration between Based Upon and Steinway & Sons (see image, top). For ‘The London’, Based Upon sought inspiration from the leaves of the London Plane tree, a species found in the city’s central locations such as The Mall, Berkeley Square and Regents Park. Noting the veins of the leaf are redolent of London’s fabled streets, the Plane tree’s leaves have
