Saturday 19 May 2007

Five reasons to love Kettle's Yard

1. It's free. Open every day except Monday, all you need to do is give the rope a tug and a door to a more peaceful, aesthetic world will open.
2. Ben Nicholson. Nowhere else will you be able to see so many masterpieces by Ben Nicholson in such perfect surroundings.
3. You can actually sit on the furniture. No comfy chairs with ropes across them: sit and idle away a few minutes to a couple of hours in the most serene house in Cambridge.
4. David Jones's Vexilla Regis, 1948.
5. 'Jim' Ede. A man who understood the importance of context, light and space.