Somewhere Else
Less an exhibition than an ecology of experience, a choreography of natural elements unfolding through the house. Moving from floor to floor feels like passing through layers of atmosphere: from earth to air, from weight to lightness, from structure to sensation.
Set within a Georgian mansion built between 1769 and 1772, the house retains much of its original fabric. Its five floors spiral around a grand central staircase, revealing centuries of use and transformation. This framework becomes both structure and subject, a vessel through which OF A explores the physical and emotional resonance of space.
Conceived as four acts connected by the staircase, the installation traces a vertical journey through matter and atmosphere. Water moves through the interior as a quiet unifying presence. As the house shifts from solidity to vapour, from geology to weather, it becomes a living cross-section of elemental states.
Act I — Cube
The journey begins on the ground floor, where a monolithic block of marble carries water in awn endless loop from OF A Tap. This gentle circulation evokes geological time and the invisible currents beneath the surface.
Act II — Moon Garden
Ascending to the first floor, the atmosphere softens. A planted hemisphere, a fragment of landscape displaced indoors, forms an otherworldly garden where foliage draws nourishment from OF A's water system.
Act III — Spectral Dining Table
In the adjoining room, stillness replaces growth. A long table stands among draped furniture, covered frames, and a wrapped chandelier, an interior held in suspension.
Act IV — Cloud Room
At the top of the house, matter dissolves into air. Vapour and light drift through the rooms, turning the architecture itself into a fragment of weather.
An overview by Tapio Snellman
Event Credits:
Creative Direction and Communications: Ben WeaverMedia Relations: Corinna Dean
Set Design Consultant: Lyndsay Milne McLeod
Planting and Floristry: Wagner Kreusch and Frida Kim
Photography: Annabel Elston
Filmmaking: Tapio Snellman
Sound Artists: Tudor Petre and Guðmundur Bjarki
Food and Wine: La Fromagerie with Head Chef Alessandro Grano
Hair and Makeup: Hamilton Stansfield
Art Handler: Momart
Event Manager: Estella Lim (Native spaces)
Sculpture Installation and Production: David Beschizza and Tim Kingston
Lighting, Sound and FX: London Sound and Light
Structural Engineer: Atelier One
Marble: Margraf
Water: Pear Tree Well
Press:
Spirits in the Aqueous WorldAn article by Yuki Sumner for The World Of Interiors
Somewhere Else, an overview by Charles Saumarez Smith
The Cube, Featured in Stone Specialist
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