Dennis Severs' House
Preserved Georgian townhouse staged as a frozen eighteenth-century still-life drama, toured in silence by candlelight.
This guide to Dennis Severs' House in London imagines the Jervis family, Huguenot silk weavers who supposedly settled on Folgate Street in 1725 and seem to have just stepped out of the room, leaving candles burning and a meal half-eaten. It also tells the real story behind the illusion: Dennis Severs, a Californian who bought the derelict Georgian townhouse in 1979 and set out to live inside the eighteenth century himself. You'll hear how he filled ten rooms with an invented family's clutter and what painter David Hockney made of the result. Walk the rooms in silence, room by room, the way Severs intended.
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