Chatsworth House puts furniture in dialogue across the centuries at Mirror Mirror

Contemporary and historic home furnishings and objects sit shoulder to shoulder in Chatsworth House’s expansive exhibition, Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design and style.

Co-curator Glenn Adamson (previously the director of the Museum of Arts and Structure, New York) has set first works from the Quality I-listed stately home’s 500-yr record in dialogue with latest and freshly commissioned parts by 16 global designers, Ini Archibong, Michael Anastassiades, Wendell Castle, Andile Dyalvane, Ndidi Ekubia, Najla El Zein, Formafantasma, Joris Laarman, Max Lamb, Fernando Laposse, Jay Sae Jung Oh, Samuel Ross, Chris Schanck, Ettore Sottsass, Faye Toogood, and Joseph Walsh.

While Chatsworth Household dates back again to the 17th century, some objects in its selection go back as far as 4,000 decades in the past.

In the chapel, Faye Toogood has installed monolithic Purbeck marble home furnishings – her Lode, Trove and Plot styles – that nods to a set of neolithic standing stones observed nearby. She’s also mounted a huge dining desk fabricated from oak in the Oak Area, offering an trade of resources throughout the hundreds of years, actively playing with sort, shape and proportion to convey a sense of modernity.

Odds are you’ve encountered photographs of Mexican designer Fernando Laposse‘s huge fluffy wardrobe percolating their way via social media. The yeti-like armoire injects a perception of playfulness into the if not austere bedroom chamber.

Jay Sae Jung Oh has produced an elaborate throne chair, wrapped in damaged instruments, for Chatsworth’s tunes place, while Max Lamb has created two cedar chairs whose postmodern shapes riff on the curves and proportions of their Regency predecessors.

Switzerland-based mostly US designer Ini Archibong‘s hanging chandelier, ‘Dark Vernus’, is suspended in a vaulted vestibule previously mentioned two 19th-century bronze busts of an African man and lady by French sculptor Charles-Henri Cordier from Chatsworth’s assortment. Although not engaging directly with Cordier’s exoticised and problematic artworks, Archibong’s installation bodily rises higher than them and fills the gallery with a customized-composed soundtrack.

Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design and style is created in collaboration with Friedman Benda with aid from Salon 94 Structure and Adrian Sassoon. It runs until finally 1 Oct 2023, with tickets priced from £28.50 for the dwelling and backyard.

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