Spaces for Art

Chateau de Paulin

Built in a spectacular setting, the Chateau de Paulin was once used as a fortified position; the oldest extant walls, built around the highest outcrop, date from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The Chateau would have been one of the outposts of Carthar influence during this period and its strategic position is typical of the great Carthar fortresses of Lustrous Minerve and Monsegur.

Our work over the last decade consists of restoration work to the existing fabric, new buildings including an art gallery, sculpture by Stephen Cox and landscape design.

Nothing transforms how we interact with a space more than placing a powerful work of art in it. The dimensions and surfaces may not change, but through form and colour artworks engage visitors with an unmistakable energy.

When we design spaces for displaying and viewing art we strive to create a context that allows the art to communicate. External factors may be deliberately downplayed, but they are not absent or ignored. We never forget that both the moment of creation and the experience of appreciation exist in their own time, place and culture. Eric Parry’s personal commitment to understand how art and architecture interact runs through this aspect of our work. He chose to study at Newcastle University and the Royal College of Art because art and architecture students could collaborate and share ideas.

We continue to develop our ideas through spaces for art in private homes, as well as numerous public and private galleries and exhibitions within them.

View of the top lit gallery in a house in St John’s Wood London.

A show apartment in a residential development in Albemarle Street London (left and opposite).

Supplementary hanging space created in the relocated stair well of the Holburne Museum, Bath.

The combination of art storage and a viewing room, culled from the old bank managers office, in the Timothy Taylor Gallery London.

28 – 42 Banner Street London EC1Y 8QE

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