kettles yard redesign jamie fobert architects cambridge

Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge has been redesigned and extended by Jamie Fobert Architects. Photography: Hufton + Crow

Jamie Fobert Architects’ sensitive restructuring has smoothly linked up the new spaces to the original house and the 1970s extension

Views of Kettle’s Yard House

Art collectors Jim and Helen Ede donated Kettle’s Yard to the University of Cambridge in 1966. The house contains works by Constantin Brancusi, Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, David Jones and Christopher Wood amongst others

The new exhibition spaces designed by Jamie Fobert Architects

A stairway in the new extension of Kettle’s Yard

Jim Ede’s vision, established as early as 1954, was to create ‘...a living place where works of art would be enjoyed, inherent to the domestic setting, where young people could be at home unhampered by the greater austerity of the museum or public art gallery.’

A Henry Moore scuplture from Jim Ede’s collection (left) and a photograph of Jim Ede with Brzeska’s Bird Swallowing Fish

Ede’s vision is encapsulated at Kettle’s Yard where contemporary art is displayed beside pictures, glass, china, carpets, ceramics, furniture and much more, including natural objects such as stones, shells and feathers

Works by Barbara Hepworth (left) and Brancusi (right) are on view at Kettle’s Yard

keywords:Cultural architecture, Gallery architecture

关键词：文化建筑，画廊建筑