The majestic Chatsworth House and Gardens officially re-open today, Saturday 18th March with a breath-taking new exhibition, ‘Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design at Chatsworth’. Featuring commissioned works by 16 contemporary, world renowned designers, the exhibition will be on display throughout the house and garden until October.
Co-curated by Alex Hodby, Senior Curator of Programme at Chatsworth, and writer, historian and curator Glenn Adamson, Mirror Mirror continues the legacy of Chatsworth as a centre of creativity, as successive generations of the Cavendish family have commissioned contemporary art. Each of the 16 designers has responded to one of Chatsworth’s spaces, either indoors or outside in the garden and have been chosen for the way that they reflect on the key issues of today, from climate, sustainability and equality to how people connect.
The sixteen contemporary artists and designers featured in the exhibition are: 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. Expect bold, inspiring design in juxtaposition with the historic and traditional.
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