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The setting: a Wilhelminian style flat from the 1880s of lavish layout (190sqm) with extraordinary ceiling heights (3.80). Four rooms, kitchen, bathroom, balcony.
A work of spatial art: airy, restrained, immensely noble and yet harbouring a subtle richness of detail.
The ambience breathes history: things gathered from many corners of the world, fished out of the stream of time with an inspired eye and a sure hand. African sculptures; secretive portraits of unknown women and men; picture islands of island pictures, cloud pictures, water pictures; fragile folding chairs from a Roman palazzo; seating furniture by Vitra, cool and comfortable; a heavy baroque chest; shimmering giant trays and dining tables that were once market stalls. Four oak display case metres from a Hanseatic trading office as working storage and fundus; another: the audacious book installation. For the sake of sound, a Steinway grand piano from New York, a piano by Gaveau from Paris, underscoring subversive gatherings of pale blue and ultramarine. A variety of found objects and modernity is brought into a unique creative dramaturgy with intervals of spaciousness and emptiness. Well-calculated correspondences emerge at the temporal, stylistic and functional breaking points: things are made to speak and harmonise in unexpected ways. A cosmos of surprises awaits the visitor, right down to the smallest details. You can explore it more or less deeply - or simply enjoy it.
