From The Archive

Saatchi Gallery

20:50

A site-specific installation of used sump oil and steel. This work has been installed in each of the three consecutive locations of the Saatchi Gallery in London.

Jaisalmer

Cardamom, Incense, Cinnamon, Amber, Benzoin, Pimento Berries, Gaiac Wood, and Ebony - A striking and elusive scent with phantoms of aromatic woods and the warmth of cinnamon. Ultimately discreet, it's more a dialogue with yourself than with your surroundings.

Satyricon

Lavishly inventive, an evocation of ancient Rome loosely derived from fragments of a text by Petronius. The images and sounds are so vivid and exotic as to activate the other senses by default.

Institut Du Monde Arabe

As a center for Arab culture with galleries, libraries, archives and performance spaces, the building's elegantly sober exterior encloses a structure bursting with beauty, ideas and innovations.

Lightning Field

An installation of 400 stainless steel poles in a perfect grid measuring one mile by one kilometer.

Art Site Naoshima

A complex of buildings including the museum, an annex and the Minami- dera Art House Project

24 Hour Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho slowed down to two frames per second so it lasts twenty four hours.

Vetiver Extraordinaire

Bergamot, Bigarade Orange, Pink pepper, Nutmeg, Floralozone, Haïtain Vetyver, Sandalwood, Cedarwood, Oak moss, Myrrh, Cashmeran, Musketone, Tonalide - A triumph of earthy, smoky opacity laden with gleaming detail and subtle flashes of light. It evolves constantly around the wearer. Like wearing the phantom of an impossibly majestic forest.

Josiah McElheny

Model For Total Abstractive Reflection

A grouping of complex, mirror surfaced glass forms on an entirely mirrored dias.

The Nightingale Floor

A wooden floor cunningly crafted to produce the sound of nightingales in response to the pressure of footfalls. Both an entertainment and a defense it would immediately alert it's owner to the presence of intruders.

Repulsion

A young Catherine Deneuve goes dangerously mad in this unforgettable psycho-sexual thriller.

Florian Holzherr

Deer Shelter

A sky space augmenting the remains of an 18th-century deer shelter in the grounds of the sculpture park.

Oblivion 7n

One of a series of aerial photographs of Los Angeles. With its inverted tones and forensic detail this image captures the idea of a city as a cybernetic infestation of the landscape. With one image the photographer endows the city with as much mystery and menace as a dozen sprawling crime novels.

Brion-Vega Cemetery

A private walled family cemetery incorporating structures, water and complex landscaping. His final work, the architect himself is buried here

lchnusa

Arbutus, Fig Leaf, Cut Grass and Myrtle - A unusually refined and tenacious haze of sunlit, verdant green, this scent irresistibly relocates the senses to a zone of Mediterranean air and light.

Air De Paris

Glass ampoule (broken and later restored)

Outside The Dream Syndicate

The starkly minimal combination of basic drums and violins quickly transcends its apparent simplicity and reveals an enormous range of psycho-acoustic variations for the persistent listener.

Psycotropic House

Proposed with an amazing degree of prescience (as always) these self-healing, mood-sensitive, reactive dwellings pressaged many developments in architecture which are only now becoming technicaly viable.

Tabac Blonde (original version)

Orris, Leather, Tobacco, Vanilla, Amber, Musk and Patchouli - The original version of this perfume was an almost hallucinatory tide of leather and tobacco notes wrapped in subtle vanilla and orris. The reformulation alas is crudely sweet and two-dimensional. Even the memory of the original is sufficient to supplant its pretender. Worth hunting out at auction.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

SkÃ³gafoss

A 200 foot fall of brilliant white water which crashes to the ground and then drains quietly into the sea beyond. This fall offers a most unusual vantage point in that one can virtually stand directly in front of it.

Music for Eighteen Muscicians

A pulsing,minimal musical work which uses very subtle, microscopically precise shifts in timing and timbral arrangement to create some breathtaking aural and temporal illusions.

The Fountainhead

A film often credited with introducing the ideas of modernist architecture to the US public. It certainly captures the timeless drama of building with other people's money.

Eau Noire

Immortelle, Lavender, Cedar, and Vanilla - Darkly delicious, with a core of vanilla polished with lavender hovering over a humid plane of woods.

Space Station

Discovered adrift and apparently deserted by a group of astronauts, the station resists all attempts to define the limits of its shape and size.

The Five Senses: A Philosophy Of Mingled Bodies

This is an exhaustive philosophical treatise from an empirical, physical (body oriented) perspective. Recently translated into English, the writing at best trills with brilliantly articulate, poetic evocations of the action of the world upon our senses. At its worst it groans with redundant (yet inexplicably persistent) hymns to French primacy in all creative endeavor. The sections on gastronom...

Paul SchÃ¼tze

Queen Mary's Rose Garden

A circular form garden in which hundreds of rose varieties are displayed in spectacular formation.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

Leviathan Thot

A vast, temporary installation of stretched and suspended Lycra forms filled with Styrofoam spheres. The impression within the grandeur of the Pantheon was of an elaborate organic growth with its own contrasting language of forms.

Sycamore

Vetiver, Cypress, Juniper, Pink Pepper, Smoke, Burning woods - The earthy roots of vetiver enlivened with juniper and the tang of pepper. This perfume manages to be both elegant and profound. It is surprisingly aerial despite the presence of so many earth notes; imagine a sunlit treehouse formed from freshly dug rootlets.

Catch 33

47.5 minutes of extreme Math Metal. One continuous piece of characteristic, complex rhythmic experimentation.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

Queen Mary's Rose Garden

A circular form garden in which hundreds of rose varieties are diplayed in specacular formation.

The House of Cyrus Kriticos

An intricate and complicated house in which all surfaces are transparent, etched glass animated by elaborate and often visible mechanisms which can reconfigure access and hence movement through the structure. The entire house behaves like a gigantic mechanised puzzle-box.

The Black Clock

A mysterious place/landmark which reappears in several of the novels of Steve Erickson despite their diverse locations and chronologies.

Permafrost

Six pieces of ineffably subtle yet completely engulfing sound which dissolve all ideas of distance and proximity until the listener is in a state of complete aural neutrality. After hearing this music the world sounds different.

Vetiver Extraordinaire

Bergamot, Bigarade Orange, Pink pepper, Nutmeg, Floralozone, Haïtain Vetyver, Sandalwood, Cedarwood, Oak moss, Myrrh, Cashmeran, Musketone, Tonalide - A triumph of earthy, smoky opacity laden with gleaming detail and subtle flashes of light. It evolves constantly around the wearer. Like wearing the phantom of an impossibly majestic forest.

Touch Me!

Gregor Eichinger's work with the idea of the Benuzeroberfläche; the user interface or experience of architecture, raises a host of fascinating ideas. The neglect of sensory intellegence he identifies in current practice is beautifully explaned. This conversation with architect Eberhardt Tröger ranges over a wide area and is completed by a pictorial essay and some very instructive ...

Josiah McElheny

Model For Total Abstractive Reflection

A grouping of complex, mirror surfaced glass forms on an entirely mirrored dias.

The Offence

A film in which the progressive breakdown of the principal character is articulated through subjective visuals and sound, greatly increasing our involvement in his dilemma. Sean Connery so wanted to make this film that he used his continued involvement in the James Bond franchise as leverage with the studio.

94 Discont

One of the first and arguably the most influential albums of computer glitch music. This recording has given rise to several discrete genres of music.

Encens Flamboyant

Tears of Frankincense, Black Pepper, Rose Berry, Frankincense Resinoid, Cardamom, Nutmeg. Vieille Eglise, Balsam Fir, Lentisque - Freighted with impossible quantities of frankincense, resins and spice this scent is almost narcotic in its persuasiveness. Even for someone with no ecclesiastical associations it invokes an irresistible illusion of soaring vaults hazed with incense.

Sea Organ

This architectural construction utilizes hidden chambers and openings to create piping sounds driven entirely by the movements of water and tides

Michael Goldrei

Seizure

Having sealed a ground floor apartment in a condemned block, the artist filled it with thousands of gallons of copper sulfate through a hole in the floor of the flat above. When the space was drained every centimetre of the interior was encrusted with brilliant blue crystals.

Joan Fontcuberta

Semiopolis, Origin Of Species

A pristine close-up of a single page in a brail version of Darwin's book.

Eau de Gentian Blanche

Gentian, Benjoin, Iris, White Musk, Oakmoss - Wonderfully bitter and earthy, it opens with an almost chromium gleam which deepens into cold woods. This scent describes an enclosed aromatic space of roots and soil hugging the ground, rich and fertile.

Eccentric Spaces

An expansive meditation upon the imagination and its application in built spaces from, gardens and castles to the imagined cities and spaces of fiction. This is a work of great breadth and vivid insight which succeeds completely in invigorating the eye and the mind.

The Air Is On Fire

A stereo version of the multi-channel sound work composed for the exhibition of the same name.

Street of Crocodiles

A 21-minute, stop-motion animation very loosely based on the novel by Bruno Schulz. The detail of the mis-en-scene is astonishingly elaborate, sinister and sensuous.

Haunted Landscapes

Each of the landscapes in this suite of films changes beautifully to indicate the particular haunting in each story. As each character becomes trapped in the transforming landscape the appearance and behavior of their surroundings alters bringing us closer to the protagonists and to their torments.

SHOWstudio Shop

Coal

An Essence Absolue extracted from coal from the deepest mine at the North Pole.

Body, Memory And Architecture

One of the definitive books on the relationship between the built environment and our physical and psychological place within it. Essential reading for anyone interested in improving the user experience of architectural locations.

Rothko Chapel

Commissioned for The Rothko Chapel, an non denominational place of worship and contemplation lined with Rothko paintings, this is one of Feldman's most approachable works. Appropriate to the setting it has an uncharacteristic warmth.

Un Jardin Sur Le Nile

Green Mango, Grapefruit, Calamus, Lotus, Sycamore, Frankincense - One of three scents designed to evoke exotic garden locations, this perfume shines with leafy, bright notes, crisp and fresh. There is a strong sense that what is being smelled is still very much alive and rooted in the earth. It emphatically presents the space of a garden rather than the focal point of a singe bloom.

Object (Le DÃ©jeuner en fourrure)

One of the most recognised of the surrealist objects this fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon embodies the spirit of the movement with wit and precision.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

The Painted Desert

A region of strikingly coloured earth, flat-top mesas and buttes where the contrast between landscape and sky is breathtakingly vibrant. Storms over this area are particularly spectacular.

Renato Nicolodi

Porticus 1

A characteristically enigmatic architectural sculpture which invites the viewer to journey mentally around the structure, to explore the spaces and shadows and to imagine what is not shown.

Tara House

This house, surrounded by vegetation and close to the coast is tightly integrated with it's own gardens. The peaceful modulations of terrace, path and view give way once inside to a dramatic descent into the lower levels where a stone room filled with water and lit by circular skylights provides relief from the heat of the day.

Sienne l'Hiver

Gernaium, Violet, Fern, Iris, White Truffle, Olibanum, Hay, Labdanum & Gaiac Wood. A highly unusual, evocative and fugitive perfume that balances transparency and weight with equal skill.

Hello World

An extraordinary account of the role and importance of design in life. Rich in historical detail and insight, the book makes many unexpected and enlightening links across disciplines and cultures, arguing for an intelligent, benign and responsible approach to design across all aspects of life.

dillerscofidio.com

Blur Building

31,500 high-pressure nozzles shroud this structure in a perpetual fog mass. In effect the building is the cloud.

The Five Senses: A Philosophy Of Mingled Bodies

This is an exhaustive philosophical treatise from an empirical, physical (body oriented) perspective. Recently translated into English, the writing at best trills with brilliantly articulate, poetic evocations of the action of the world upon our senses. At its worst it groans with redundant (yet inexplicably persistent) hymns to French primacy in all creative endeavor. The sections on gastronom...

The Eyes Of The Skin

Originally an essay contributed to a collection this text has become required reading in all architectural courses. Deeply felt and articulate it is a call for a multi sensory approach to the design of buildings and public spaces.

Haunted Landscapes

Each of the landscapes in this suite of films changes beautifully to indicate the particular haunting in each story. As each character becomes trapped in the transforming landscape the appearance and behavior of their surroundings alters bringing us closer to the protagonists and to their torments.

Comme Des GarÃ§ons

Labdanum, Cedarwood, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Black Pepper, Honey, Clove, Nutmeg, and Sandalwood - The first and arguably the best scent released by the Japanese fashion label this highly unusual scent has an almost medicinal quality which is very distinctive. Unusually for a hugely admired piece of work it has never been successfully imitated.

Second Site

This 102-minute work evokes the sense-rich architectural site of the Janta Manta though electronically "refracted" sound and spoken word.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

Guimet Museum

Spectacular collection of Asian art housed in an non-descript vernacular structure which conceals breathtaking interior rennovations, articulating light and space and greatly invigorating the exhibits.

Matter and Memory

A book in which Bergson tries to separate the physical location and functions of the brain from the act and experience of memory which he feels is a spiritual process rather than a habitual or purely mechanical function. while this results in passages of abstruse and impenetrable prose the book is full of wonderful moments and real poetry.

L'Eau Sento

Cedar Leaves, Cumin Seeds, Cypress Wood, Yew Wood, Red Algae - A beautifully simple, light wood scent which evokes the super-fine, almost transparent forms of Japanese carpentry and lacquer. It is like the warm yellow light which passes through the finest skin of freshly planed wood.

Ken Cornet , Patrick Vitacco, Willam Farley

Automatic Writing

A piece for voice and electronics

Faust Sceneography

A typically innovative staging design, both aurally and visually startling, in which the amplified sounds of the cast moving were deployed to striking effect.

The Night Land

More than a century after it was written this novel of nightmarish landscapes still stands alone for sheer scope of imagination. The images it evokes are unforgettable, vivid and deeply felt.

Lost Highway

A willfully obscure and visceral thriller in which time and character are unsettlingly flexible and the rules by which viewers might be expected to deduce the plot lines are constantly altered.

A Natural History of the Senses

A wide ranging study of the senses through human history and culture. The author manages to weave science, anecdote and esoteric detail into a compelling account of our relationship to the world through the senses and the evolution and changing roles of one sense over another.

Poivre (original version)

Red Pepper, Black Pepper, Giroflore, Carnation, Ylang Ylang, Opoponax, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Oakmoss - Powerfull and long-lasting, the original, now reformulated, was like wearing a coat lined with pepper and oak moss. It made the air around you perpetually effervescent with spices.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Casa BatilÃ³

An image of the interior of this famous Gaudi building and part of the photographers series of architectural icons.

The Mirror Scene

A brilliantly clever illusion in which a character falls into the temporarily liquid surface of a mirror. This moment begins a series of events designed to confound the audience and challenge the evidence of their senses.

The Poetics Of Space

This book, some fifty years after its publication, is still regarded as one of the most important meditations on the phenomenology of Architecture. The author broke with traditional ideals stressing from and appearance to focus on the experience of spaces. He strove to understand and propose a built environment as a refuge and repository for our dreams and memories.

Bois D' Encens

Incense, Vetiver and Cedar. A very dry, almost dusty scent heavy with frankinscence and cedar.

De Naturua Sonorum

A complete sound-world conjured with what now seem the most basic of tools. Still unmatched for it's poetry, rigor and scope.

Shugaku-in Imperial Villa Garden

Seen as one of the great achievements of Japanese garden design, these gardens introduced the idea of the "borrowed view" by framing the near-by Kyoto hills through careful design and direction of the visitor's attentions.

High Rise

A novel set in a new residential high rise development which quickly degenerates into a seige as social conventions give way to tribal conflict and violence. The building becomes analogous to a social heirachy with different groups fighting for facillities and territory.

Landscape (Satyricon)

As the story moves from one extraordinary location to another the landscape and it's details become essential characters in a film of vibrant and exotic sound and image. Taking the considerable expanse of the Roman Empire as a jumping off point elements from as far afield as Bali and Ethiopia collide in an exuberant fusion.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

Cipro

Calabrian Bergamot, Citrus, Vetiver, Oak Musk - A very old and concentrated scent with an extraordinarily luminous depth and a character which places it beyond contemporary trends.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

Medici Fountain

A monumental fountain which has been extensively remodeled and even relocated during it's life, the most striking aspect is the perspectival illusion seen when looking the length of the balustraded pool. The plane of the water seems to be sloping downward.

dillerscofidio.com

Blur Building

31,500 high-pressure nozzles shroud this structure in a perpetual fog mass. In effect the building is the cloud.

Hello World

An extraordinary account of the role and importance of design in life. Rich in historical detail and insight, the book makes many unexpected and enlightening links across disciplines and cultures, arguing for an intelligent, benign and responsible approach to design across all aspects of life.

The Rape Of Prosperina

A marble sculptural group of such astonishing power and feeling it demands the engagement of all the senses. The feeling of physical contact, skin on skin defies our certainty of the inanimacy of stone. Bernini was 23 years old when he finished this piece!

Ivy House

Once overwhelmed and darkened by the weight of ivy covering the exterior, the architects hollowed out the interior, removing walls and greatly brightening the spaces while entirely retaining the wonderful life and texture of the ivy covering. What would, for most designers, be seen as a problem to be removed has become a uniquely defining element into which the house itself has adapted.

Orris Noir

Davana, Pink Pepper, Coriander Seed, Bergamont, Iris, Sambac Absolute, Pimento, Bay, Incense, Myrrh, Patchouli, Cedar, Gaiac - An opaque, sensuous perfume which envelops the wearer and seems to change with every encounter. Exotic in the true sense it stands out amid "feminine" scents as innately beautiful and aloof.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

Burnt Buddha

A badly charred wooden statue of Buddha measuring approximately 80cm in height.

Pieces Of Light

A very engaging trawl through current thinking on the place and science of memory in our lives. The author pays particular attention to the role of the senses in forming and often distorting narratives we build around our own lives. The reader is left with an often unsettling sense of the fluidity of personal history and the 'evidence' of the senses.

Eccentric Spaces

An expansive meditation upon the imagination and its application in built spaces from, gardens and castles to the imagined cities and spaces of fiction. This is a work of great breadth and vivid insight which succeeds completely in invigorating the eye and the mind.

Primavera

A characteristic work from this artist. The painted surface demands exploration and rewards movements of the viewer with luxurious shifts in hue and texture.

Summer

Arguably the best section of the four-part suite Sonic Seasonings, this piece manages to convey the essence of heat, stillness and a particularly contemporary climate through pure sound without resorting to "illustrative" detailing. Meticulously blended natural and electronic sounds often create psycho-acoustic illusions which seem impossible within the two-track stereo environm...

M

Bergamot, Lemon, Rose, Jasmine, Cinnamon, Mosses, Cistus, Vetiver, Patchouli, Vanilla, Leather, Musk - A profound, sleekly modulated perfume claimed by its makers and rightly, to evoke both the spirit and embodiment of an Aston Martin.

Ã‰tienne-Louis BoullÃ©e

Newton Cenotaph

Embedded in a vast tree lined base this 150 meter high sphere was proposed as a memorial to Isaac Newton. While never constructed it has nevertheless become an iconic building.

Sea Organ

This architectural construction utilizes hidden chambers and openings to create piping sounds driven entirely by the movements of water and tides

Chair

Seeming to reflect more the curves and sensuality of the human body than the plant and animal forms of classical furniture this chair is a provocative as it is sculptural.

The House of Cyrus Kriticos

An intricate and complicated house in which all surfaces are transparent, etched glass animated by elaborate and often visible mechanisms which can reconfigure access and hence movement through the structure. The entire house behaves like a gigantic mechanised puzzle-box.

Fille En Aiguilles

Pine needles, Vetiver, Sugary Sap, Laurel, Fir Balsam, Frankincense, Candied fruit and Spice - Rich, resinous woods, lively incense and deeply hued fruits encrusted with sugars and saps. And all this enclosed in a rain of freshly dropped pine needles. This scent makes even the air seem edible.

Empire Of The Senses

A collection of essays from a stellar list of contributors in which our experience of the world through the senses is given central importance. Crossing numerous disciplines and approaches, this diverse company of thinkers offer wide ranging and incisive thoughts on how and why we absorb information from the world.

All Is Full Of Love

A robot is slowly assembled by elegant machine arms while singing. Joined by a second robot and still being tended and caressed by machines, the robots appear to make love.

Josiah McElheny

Model For Total Abstractive Reflection

A grouping of complex, mirror surfaced glass forms on an entirely mirrored dias.

Last Year In Marienbad

Dream-like black-and-white film in which the Chanel-clad characters drift from one encounter to another. Time and memory seem in free-fall and the laws of physics up for grabs. The splendid location which is constantly explored by an enraptured camera may or may not be an impossibly glamorous asylum in which the protagonists may or may not be inmates. Based on the equally enigmatic novel ...

Comme Des GarÃ§ons Bottle

This wonderfully tactile flask broke with the norm and refused to stand for anybody. Seemingly minimal, its surfaces are in fact a series of very subtle compound curves.

Glass Iris

A minutely detailed, botanicaly perfect replica of a flowering iris plant made entirely from glass. Just one of a large series of plant replicas crafted by the Blaschkas.

Street of Crocodiles

A 21-minute, stop-motion animation very loosely based on the novel by Bruno Schulz. The detail of the mis-en-scene is astonishingly elaborate, sinister and sensuous.

Joao Vieira Torres

Tourbillon Vase

A functional glass vessel which presents the observer with a series of pleasing illusions all the more interesting as they question the physical identity of the glass from which the piece is made while alluding to the water it may hold.

To Fix the image in Memory

An arrangement of small stones which appears to be made up of identical pairs. In fact, one of each pair is a meticulously crafted, hand-painted, bronze replica of its natural twin.

Katsura Imperial Palace Garden

An Edo period garden designed in collaboration with a tea master this is in fact a vast tea garden with lakes, 16 bridges and a platform built to view the rising moon.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

Escalator

A dramatic architectural device which guarantees both an almost geological tour of the building's layers and wonderful views of Paris during the journey to the upper galleries.

Oblivion 7n

One of a series of aerial photographs of Los Angeles. With its inverted tones and forensic detail this image captures the idea of a city as a cybernetic infestation of the landscape. With one image the photographer endows the city with as much mystery and menace as a dozen sprawling crime novels.

Jaisalmer

Cardamom, Incense, Cinnamon, Amber, Benzoin, Pimento Berries, Gaiac Wood, and Ebony - A striking and elusive scent with phantoms of aromatic woods and the warmth of cinnamon. Ultimately discreet, it's more a dialogue with yourself than with your surroundings.

In Praise Of Shadows

Probably the most famous essay on Japanese aethetics known in the west. This book contrasts the brilliant, over-lit clarity of the contemporary Western architectural environment with the subtly modulated shadow and lamp light of Japanese tradition. The author discusses ways in which the very materials with which we surround ourselves change and die under the blaze of forensic brilliance which i...

Trayee

Blue ginger, Elemi, Cinnamon, Ganja effects, Blackcurrant, Basil, Jasmine, Cardamom, Clove, Saffron, Sandalwood, Vetiver, Incense, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Myrrh, Vanilla, Cedar, Amber, Oud, Oakmoss. A spectacular oriental, rich in spice and incense, opulent, complex and joyfull.

Aroma: The Cultural History Of Smell

A wide ranging study of the cultural uses and meanings of aroma throughout history. The authors illustrate their observations with a rich and ecclectic selection of examples from historical and anthropological record to present day industrial practice and comercial perfumery.

Permafrost

Six pieces of ineffably subtle yet completely engulfing sound which dissolve all ideas of distance and proximity until the listener is in a state of complete aural neutrality. After hearing this music the world sounds different.

Jubilation XXV

Labdanum Ciste, Coriander, Orange, Davana, Frankincense, Blackberry, Honey, Bay, Cinnamon, Orchid, Rose, Clove, Celery Seeds, Gaiac Wood, Patchouli, Opoponax, Myrrh, Atlas Cedarwood, Musk, Moss, Ambergris, Oud Wood, Immortelle - This dizzyingly sumptuous display of rare and expensive ingredients is like wearing your own palace. The surrounding world is blotted out by swoon-inducing opulence.

Shugaku-in Imperial Villa Garden

Seen as one of the great achievements of Japanese garden design, these gardens introduced the idea of the "borrowed view" by framing the near-by Kyoto hills through careful design and direction of the visitor's attentions.

Sir John Soane's Museum

Originally Soane's home, this building is also home to his extraordinary personal collection. He modified every room, better to accommodate and display the wealth of antiquities, paintings and drawings on show. Although the museum is relatively small, the density of the collection guarantees an almost endless series of revelations and discoveries.

Paul SchÃ¼tze

Queen Mary's Rose Garden

A circular form garden in which hundreds of rose varieties are displayed in spectacular formation.

Spiral Jetty

A spiral path of basalt rocks which appears and vanishes with the radically varying levels of the lake in which it sits. Years submerged in the salt waters of the lake have changed it from black to salty white-pink.

Katsura Imperial Palace Garden

An Edo period garden designed in collaboration with a tea master this is in fact a vast tea garden with lakes, 16 bridges and a platform built to view the rising moon.

Encre Noire

Haitian Vetiver, Vetiver Bourbon, Cypress Wood, Musk, Cashmere Wood - The vertiginous depth and smoky luminescence of this scent describes a space into which to fall, swooning and delirious.

Matthias Schaller

Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni

One of a series of large-format photographs of interiors facing the Grand Canal in Venice. The reflected light which seems to flood the polished floor of the room with the ghost of waters beyond the huge windows creates a profound connection between the space and its historical context.