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Absurd and amusing, solemn and scholarly: Charles Jencks's Cosmic House reviewed

2 October 2021

9:00 AM

2 October 2021

9:00 AM

The Cosmic House

London, W11, booking to 19 December

An editor once told me: always look at the loos. It was remarkable, she said, how many grand cultural projets, having spent a fortune on the atrium, the concert hall, the galleries, spent pennies on the bogs.

The smallest rooms at Charles Jencks’s Cosmic House are among the loveliest loos in London with windows on to the garden and a ‘Jencksiana’ mirror over the sink.

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