Dennis Severs' House, Art museum in Spitalfields, London, England
Dennis Severs' House is a museum in Spitalfields, London, presenting early Georgian and Victorian households across ten rooms on four floors. Each room has been furnished with period furniture, wall coverings, and personal belongings to recreate the daily life of different eras.
The house was built in 1724 in a district inhabited by Huguenot silk weavers. American artist Dennis Severs purchased it in 1979 and spent two decades transforming it into a walk-through artwork that reveals traces of this immigrant community.
The owner arranged the building as a living portrait of a Huguenot silk-weaver family called the Jervises, filling each room with authentic objects from their era. Upstairs rooms show the simpler quarters of servants, while the lower floors recreate the working and formal spaces of the craftsman household.
Visits take place only on selected weekdays, mostly in the late afternoon or Sunday midday. The house sits on Folgate Street and can be reached on foot from Liverpool Street Station.
The rooms remain in constant half-light, lit only by candles and gas lamps as in the 18th century. At certain moments you hear sounds from the kitchen or smell freshly baked bread, as though the family just stepped out briefly.
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