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The North Sketch Gallery Sequence by Jacob van der Beugel

Thomas Heatherwick Spun Chairs

A CONTEMPORARY SEAT

Chatsworth House has always championed modern design says Hannah Obee

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his seems an absurd statement for a
house that was built between 1687
and 1707. Yet Chatsworth is the product
of generations of contemporary collecting.
It is not fixed in time, and furniture as well
as ceramics, metalwork, paintings, textiles
and sculpture by today’s artists, designers
and makers, continue to be added to the
Devonshire Collection by the family.
It came as a great surprise to work in a Baroque country house
and find myself pulled towards contemporary art and design.
Maybe the clues were all around me: the mirrors in the State
Apartment may date from 1705 but they were the product of the
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