Spitalfields
(Catalogue nos. 16-22)
A long-time resident of London’s East End, Trevor pays homage in this section to historic Spitalfields. The sequence begins with the only exterior in the exhibition, one of the typical terraced houses seen on Fournier Place (cat. no. 16), built in the early Georgian period to accommodate Huguenot weavers who worked in the silk industry. A fictional recreation of a weaver’s home is seen in Dennis Severs’ House on Folgate Street, the inspiration of several works (cat. nos. 17-19; 21). Occupying the house since the late 1970s, Severs, an American from California, has created a virtual time capsule of eighteenth and nineteenth-century domestic décor.
Trevor was attracted by the idiosyncratic arrangement of objects, their colours and textures, and especially the theatrical atmosphere of the Severs’ House, about which the owner himself remarked, ‘you either see it or you don’t.’ Trevor recorded the artfully arranged collection of blue and white Delft over the mantel in the master bedroom (cat. nos. 17-18) as well as the breakfast table, complete with egg cup, and the mistress of the house’s dressing gown (cat. no. 21). And he drew the chimneypiece from the sitting room, adding his own flourishes: the blue and white china, fire screen and andirons (cat. no. 19). Also included are two further interiors of Spitalfields, which, unlike the previous examples, are light-infused and contemporary in feel (cat. nos. 20, 22).
Trevor was attracted by the idiosyncratic arrangement of objects, their colours and textures, and especially the theatrical atmosphere of the Severs’ House, about which the owner himself remarked, ‘you either see it or you don’t.’ Trevor recorded the artfully arranged collection of blue and white Delft over the mantel in the master bedroom (cat. nos. 17-18) as well as the breakfast table, complete with egg cup, and the mistress of the house’s dressing gown (cat. no. 21). And he drew the chimneypiece from the sitting room, adding his own flourishes: the blue and white china, fire screen and andirons (cat. no. 19). Also included are two further interiors of Spitalfields, which, unlike the previous examples, are light-infused and contemporary in feel (cat. nos. 20, 22).
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