The house of Grenson has a foot in both camps

Chet Baker took the biggest hit. In 2023, a black and white photograph of the American jazz trumpeter was presiding over the kitchen in Tim and Julia Little’s home in Spitalfields, east London, when a fire broke out in the hallway. The couple were just finishing renovating their early-Georgian, Grade II-listed townhouse and were away for the week. At four o’clock in the morning an electrical spark set the ground floor ablaze, engulfing three of four storeys. It melted the Littles’…