Author Studio MUTT
Year 2018 (12th September - 18th November)
Client Sir John Soane Museum (for London Design Festival)
Curator Owen Hopkins
Fabricator Mike Smith Studio
Photography French and Tye
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In ‘Crude Hints towards an History of my House’, John Soane suggests that the Museum might have been inhabited by four characters: a Lawyer, a Monk, a Magician and an Architect.
Over 200 years later, Studio MUTT brought these characters to life and installed them as ‘inhabitants’ in different locations in the Museum. They were installed using architectural compositions of ornament, colour and form.
Soane’s original manuscript of ‘Crude Hints’ is displayed in the Foyle Space alongside a series of wall hangings.
The Lawyer comprises of a powerful and sturdy base, with a measure delicately balancing on its head. A crown is symbolically placed on one side, a weight on the other.
Secreted away within the dark gothic space of the Monk’s Cell sits the Monk, a tormented soul, silently in repose. An abstract, diagrammatic plan is lifted upright and transposed into figurative physical form.
Amid a collision of steps and arches, the Magician appears as a spatial impossibility, appearing too large, too vulgar for the space it sits within.
Looking both across and down is the voyeuristic eye of the Architect: watching, recording, copying.
The installation was open to the public between September and November 2018, as part of the London Design Festival.
Author Studio MUTT
Year 2018 (12th September - 18th November)
Client Sir John Soane Museum (for London Design Festival)
Curator Owen Hopkins
Fabricator Mike Smith Studio
Photography French and Tye