Chatham house
meditation on the great country
house, from Robert Adam to
Philip Johnson. This is the house
of a major art collector and Axis
Mundi have custom designed
furniture to compliment works
by Lucien Freud among others.
The long dining room with a large
window overlooking a meadow
resembles the refectory in a
monastery, except that instead
of icons or crucifixes on the walls
there is a magnificent painting,
by Lucien Freud, of a woman
asleep with a hound; and a black
and white abstraction by Ross
Bleckner. The house contains an
actual art gallery, a long hall, hung
with numerous other works.
HYLAND
