Visiting a writer or an artist’s home has always had a unique appeal; unlike the alienation of some museum experiences - where the artefacts are displayed at a distance from the viewer, behind a glass case – the intimacy of a home environment is completely immersive and transportive. Virginia Woolf states that ‘writers stamp themselves upon their possessions more indelibly than other people, making the table, the chair, the curtain, the carpet into their own image’. The rooms
