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  • View from Providence Court
  • ROOM at The Beaumont
  • Stairs leading to ROOM
  • The interior of ROOM
  • The interior of ROOM 2
  • Looking up in ROOM
  • ROOM at The Beaumont

ROOM by Antony Gormley

Antony Gormley

place
The Beaumont, Brown Hart Gardens, 8 Balderton Street, W1K 6TF
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Refreshments, Toilets

Travel Information

subway
Nearest tube: Bond Street, Marble Arch
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Bus routes: 390, 139, 113, 94
A monumental, inhabitable sculpture placed on a wing of the listed façade of The Beaumont Hotel. The interior, a bedroom, is as important as its exterior: a giant crouching cuboid figure based on the artist's body.

Events

Saturday 4th September
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 1pm to 1.30pm
group Capacity: 5
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 2pm to 2.30pm
group Capacity: 5
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 3pm to 3.30pm
group Capacity: 5
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 4pm to 4.30pm
group Capacity: 5
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 5pm to 5.30pm
group Capacity: 5
Sunday 5th September
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 1pm to 1.30pm
group Capacity: 5
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 2pm to 2.30pm
group Capacity: 5
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 3pm to 3.30pm
group Capacity: 5
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 4pm to 4.30pm
group Capacity: 5
ROOM, an inhabitable sculpture in the heart of Mayfair, available for public viewing
schedule Time: 5pm to 5.30pm
group Capacity: 5

Design

Original design
Antony Gormley, 2014
Type
Hotel
Period
Contemporary

  • Overview

    "MY AMBITION FOR THIS WORK IS THAT IT SHOULD CONFRONT THE MONUMENTAL WITH THE MOST PERSONAL, INTIMATE EXPERIENCE."

    Antony Gormley's ROOM forms part of a suite of rooms. A cavernous, dark, mysterious space, its creation allowed the artist to "sculpt darkness", encouraging the occupant to enter a different state of consciousness, to enjoy at the very least a meditative pause, a moment of withdrawal from the pulsating world outside.

    Gormley's ROOM is both a monumental figural sculpture and an architectural extension to the hotel. The interior, which is a dark fumed oak-clad bedroom in a one-bedroom suite, accessed up nine white marble steps through a black velvet curtain from a strongly contrasting pure white marble bathroom, is just as important as its exterior: a giant crouching cuboid figures based on the artist's body.

    Adjacent to ROOM, the bedroom, is a sitting room with large hallway and guest bathroom, decorated, like all the rooms in The Beaumont, in a soft Art Deco style with dark polished woods.

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