page_title: Dennis Severs' House
hierarchical_section_title: Dennis Severs' House
caption_attribution_description: English: 18 Folgate Street Better known as Dennis Severs' House, after the former resident (died 1999) who devised a unique re-creation of the past within these walls. With the emphasis upon atmosphere rather than authenticity, Dennis Severs furnished, decorated and equipped the place to appear exactly as it might be were a visitor to wander in upon the imaginary family while they were momentarily absent but with everything just as if they had but slipped out: fires lit, candles burning, meals half-eaten, books and embroidery flung down, not to mention the sounds and smells of Georgian life too. It knocks any other historical re-creation into a cocked hat and is most highly to be recommended: "Either you see it...or you don't". See http://www.dennissevershouse.co.uk/
context_page_description: Dennis Severs' House in Folgate Street, London is a "still-life drama" created by the previous owner Dennis Severs as a "historical imagination" of what life would have been like inside for a family of Huguenot silk weavers. It is a Grade II listed Georgian terraced house in Spitalfields in the East End, Central London, England. From 1979 to 1999 it was lived in by Dennis Severs, who gradually recreated the rooms as a time capsule in the style of former centuries. It is now open to the public.
  The motto of the house is Aut Visum Aut Non!: "You either see it or you don't."
context_section_description: Dennis Severs' House in Folgate Street, London is a "still-life drama" created by the previous owner Dennis Severs as a "historical imagination" of what life would have been like inside for a family of Huguenot silk weavers. It is a Grade II listed Georgian terraced house in Spitalfields in the East End, Central London, England. From 1979 to 1999 it was lived in by Dennis Severs, who gradually recreated the rooms as a time capsule in the style of former centuries. It is now open to the public.
  The motto of the house is Aut Visum Aut Non!: "You either see it or you don't."
caption: Dennis Severs' House
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