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Studio

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item details

NameStudio
ProductionDerrick Cherrie; 2001; New Zealand
Classificationsculpture
Materials SummaryGalvanised steel, cedar, aluminium, copper, plywood,
DimensionsOverall: 5220 (width), 4400 (height), 4215 (length)
Registration Number2001-0028-1
Credit linePurchased 2001

Overview

Downsizing might be popular these days, but you’d find it tricky to live in a house this small.

Studio is a half-scale model of a real home – a sort of playhouse for adults. You can’t see inside it or open the door, and yet you wonder what it would be like to make it your own. How would you furnish it? Where would you eat or sleep?