Entrance Hall
“It is curious to note what extent memory is unfaithful, even for the most important periods of one’s life. It is this, indeed, that explains the delightful fantasy of history.”
Marcel Duchamp
Searching for Mysteries without any clues.

Four buildings in the centre of Manchester, four buildings I know well having worked as a designer on each of them… four buildings that become the Houses Of The Collectors, as we imagine and construct alternative pasts for them, alternative futures… alternative memories.


Thus 29/31 Oldham Street becomes the House Of The Music Lover, 15 Richmond Street becomes the House Of The Book Lover, 2 Canal Street becomes the House Of The Art Lover and 3 Canal Street becomes the House Of The Dominatrix… secrecy and guilt, closed doors, concealment behind the blank anonymity of the facade.
"Man  never comes so close as to being the master of a secret seraglio as when he is surrounded by his objects. Human relationships, home of uniqueness and conflict, never permit any such fusion of absolute singularity with infinite seriality – which is why they are such a continual source of anxiety" 
Jean Baudrillard