A visit to Dorich House

Dorich House - the entrance (gallery with
long windows to left)

Had a lovely afternoon out away from the TV!  I went with the local Arts Association to Dorich House Museum.  We had booked a tour and on arrival we watched a short film about the life of Dora Gordine an international renouned sculptor. She and her second husband (David Hare) designed Dorich House and lived in it.  What an amazing place.  There are two studios, gallery and top-floor apartment as well as a huge roof terrace overlooking Richmond Park.  There are examples of Dora's work all around, the galleries are interlinked with a pulley system to move sculptures from one floor to another.  Huge windows let in maximum light and the apartment windows are half moon and there are half moon sliding doors.  It is very modernist and from the outside it is hard to tell just how delightful it is inside.

Although not well know today Dora moved in influential circles in her day.  She knew the Bloomsbury Group. There is apparently a piece of her work in display at the Tate Modern Exhibition Poetry and Dream an exhibition I saw recently.

It was a very warm afternoon and I could image Dora and her husband sleeping on the roof terrace in the hot summer nights.  Well, back to the real life, cooking....oh and watching some althletics tonight!

Here you can seem the studio windows, the half moon windows in the aprtment and the roof garden