![]() A central cylinder, containing a spiral staircase, is surrounded by four good-size rooms, themed around the four seasons. The main floor of the house, a few steps up from the street, is high-ceilinged and large-windowed. A gallery on the lower ground floor, curated by the foundation’s artistic director, Eszter Steierhoffer, shows exhibitions drawn from Jencks’s archive. A Jencks Foundation, to “promote critical experimentation”, is based there. Now, following Jencks’s wishes before his death in 2019, aged 80, the house has been opened to the public. ![]() Together with the architect Terry Farrell they made the interior into a manifesto of Jencks’s ideas and a theatre of their public and private lives. All of which human and intellectual qualities shine from the paint and MDF and mirrors and swags and marquetry-patterned terrazzo and topiary and painting and sculpture of the Cosmic House, a four-floored Victorian residence in Holland Park in west London, which Jencks and Keswick bought in 1978.
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