Adjoining Rooms

Adjoining Rooms 1989
Wood, glass, acrylic sheet, AC lacquer
Installation: 78 x 426 x 62 cm; three items: 78 x 142 x 62 cm (each)
Tate, London

Like the chair sculptures Conversation Seat (1986), Interlocking Chairs (1995) and Burnt Interlocking Chairs (1997), this work shows us how discrete components, in this case individual vitrines, combine into one work. It also expresses a Soanean mode of creating space: Soane did not create discrete rooms, but rather created a series of interlocking spaces, as in the Library-Dining Room and the Dome-Colonnade.