Saturday 2 November 2013

Raven Row


Not a room out of place in this composition of old and new parts. An 18th century silk mercer's house, a 1970s concrete framed office building are brought together with a new sunken gallery.  Whilst the 18th century interior ripples with mouldings, scalloped cornices and wood panelling, the extension is crisp, sharply detailed and unadorned. At Raven Row, white paint holds no prejudice and coats every surface, unifying old and new. Historical textures are re-rendered in a make up of plaster and white paint, occasionally interrupted by deeply blackened echoes of the past - the charred timber roof lights, or the interior of a used fireplace. The galleries are calm, spaces of a domestic scale, turning its back on the tawdry streets of Spitalfields just outside. 







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