Dennis Sever’s house
I just got home from having lunch with Monica at Spitalfields.
We visited Dennis Sever’s house, an art piece that spans an entire house decked out in 18th Century stuff and set as if we’d just interrupted a family in the middle of their evening in.
Whether you see it or you don’t - the house’s ten rooms harbour ten ’spells’ that engage the visitor’s imagination in moods that dominated the periods between 1724 and 1914. Your senses are your guide.
There was food and fire and interesting smells, sounds all around too.
Visiting the house was a singular experience and I enjoyed the idea that I was seeing things as they were happening. I couldn’t stop thinking about who this person was that collected all the stuff and set up this crazy display though.
From Wikipedia:
Dennis Severs’ House, 18 Folgate Street is a Georgian terraced house in Spitalfields, in the East End of London, England. During the 1960s and 1970s it was lived in by Dennis Severs, who gradually recreated the rooms as a time capsule in the style of former centuries. It is now open to the public.