{"id":296106,"date":"2026-02-17T19:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/296106\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:18:16","slug":"neiheiser-argyros-adds-cabinet-of-curiosities-to-london-outhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/296106\/","title":{"rendered":"Neiheiser Argyros adds “cabinet of curiosities” to London outhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

A built-in “cabinet of curiosities” housing a collection of records, books and artworks forms the spine of this outhouse extension<\/a> in London<\/a>\u00a0by local studio Neiheiser Argyros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Named Exeter Road Pavilion, the project involved converting the Victorian outbuilding in the garden of a north London residence into an annexe for the client, an art collector and DJ, where they could house their collection and host gatherings.<\/p>\n

Neiheiser Argyros<\/a> said it chose to approach these requirements as “a single architectural problem rather than two separate tasks”.<\/p>\n

\"ExteriorNeiheiser Argyros has completed a metal extension to a home in London<\/p>\n

The studio created a 20-metre-long built-in storage unit, described as a “contemporary cabinet of curiosities”.<\/p>\n

Beginning as wardrobes opposite the sleeping area, this cabinet extends to become the housing for a kitchenette and a storage space for records, artworks and books within the living area.<\/p>\n

Once in the adjacent patio, the cabinet houses weights, a ping-pong table and garden games while also acting as a structural element, supporting a steel-framed canopy topped with sheets of corrugated polycarbonate.<\/p>\n

\"ViewIt features a 20-metre-long built-in “cabinet of curiosities”<\/p>\n

“We started the project imagining the design as a kind of cabinet of curiosities, or wunderkammer, where a seemingly random collection of unrelated objects is collected and stored, allowing the visitor to curate their own connections and categories,” the studio’s co-founder Ryan Neiheiser told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“We wanted the cabinet to be both opaque, to create a quiet and unifying gesture in the space, and transparent \u2013 subtly revealing the curious objects contained within.”<\/p>\n

\"ViewA steel-framed canopy with sheets of polycarbonate shelters the patio<\/p>\n

A long corridor alongside the cabinet connects the interior Exeter Road Pavilion, creating an open connection between the living room, study and sleeping area, which sits next to an enclosed bathroom.<\/p>\n

The front of the cabinet has been finished in perforated steel.<\/p>\n

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This has also been used to create large doors in the garden area and smaller compartments in the living space, alongside a number of wood-lined niches for open storage and display.<\/p>\n

For the garden canopy, one of the corner columns was removed and replaced by a block of green marble and tension rods that counterbalance the structure, representing what Neiheiser terms the “codependence” between the project’s uses.<\/p>\n

\"PerforatedThe front of the cabinet is finished in perforated steel<\/p>\n

“There’s a certain elegance and efficiency in the storage directly supporting the canopy, but we also wanted to introduce something a bit unexpected; a productive tension between them, holding them in relation through a sense of precarious balance,” Neiheiser said.<\/p>\n

“In this, we were inspired by the work of artists Fischli & Weiss, particularly their photographic series depicting carefully poised everyday objects, caught in the fragile instant before collapse.”<\/p>\n

\"InteriorThere are wood-lined shelves\u00a0<\/p>\n

“There is a provisional codependence between the different elements of the project \u2013 existing outbuilding, storage cabinet, canopy, structural column, and plinth,” added Neiheiser.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in London, Neiheiser Argyros previously extended a Victorian terrace with a stained timber extension topped by a garden terrace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The studio also used perforated metal to disguise London Underground vents at the faceted North Greenwich Sculptural Screen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Lorenzo Zandri<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A built-in “cabinet of curiosities” housing a collection of records, books and artworks forms the spine of this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,150093,438,444,146,445,85,46,442,440,6158,150094,451,447,448,449,140789,3464,35362,443],"class_list":{"0":"post-296106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-cabinets","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-extensions","17":"tag-il","18":"tag-israel","19":"tag-london","20":"tag-london-house-extensions","21":"tag-metal","22":"tag-perforated-metal","23":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","24":"tag-residential-extensions","25":"tag-sectionall","26":"tag-sectionarchitecture","27":"tag-sectionexclusives","28":"tag-steel","29":"tag-storage","30":"tag-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}