“The Wallace Collection is a hugely loved, gilded time-warp set in a magnificent house in the center of London. Its superb works of art – including the best collection of French 18th-century artifacts outside France – were collected by one family and left to the nation. Small wonder that it inspires a rare passion and woe betide anyone who attempts to alter so much as a strand of horsehair stuffing.” That’s exactly why so many are nervous about Wallace’s reopening this week after a thoroughly modernizing remodel. – London Evening Standard