In one corner of the courtyard there was Turkey’s contribution to the London Design Biennial exhibition, a cube made of white rods embedded with lights. You can read a description/explanation here. It is called ‘Home’, but I did not find any resonance with the title or the explanation. I did enjoy it though, it must have looked wonderful at night. 
The best bit was watching how others interacted with the space. There were some gorgeous romantic photographs being taken of girlfriends, couples and family groups, who all seemed to glow within this white space.
It got me thinking how wonderful it would be to have an exhibition of spaces/settings that would be perfect for photographic portraits. For instance, Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures would be perfect.
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There was an exhibit ‘Kiss in Budapest’. The idea was that a person would enter from either end and kiss in the middle – outside the booth their picture would be displayed againt the backdrop of live webcam photos of places in Budapest. Fun idea.
Inside Somerset House room after room was filled with interactive exhibits.
This one from Qatar
I could only get a faint floral whiff from a couple of the domes, maybe I needed to be taller, but I did like the shape of the carpet.
On to Germany’s exhibit of recycled household items 
I loved this standard lamp made of bottle tops, maybe I’ll try a table lamp one day.
Made from Beach Clean too – win-win!
Here are a couple of links if you would like to read more about the Exhibition
Ravelry
Wild Daffodil 
I love the recycling. It’s not only functional its beautiful! I love re-newing/refreshing old items. But I’ve never considered you could actually do that with today’s throw away plastics!
Thank You!
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My pleasure Eliz – if art makes us look at things with a fresh perspective it has done a good job I reckon. ❤
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Yes!!! This will spread when other people see!! I’ll certainly share what I’ve seen with my teens! How wonderful!!
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Lovely! ❤
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Fascinating but I couldn’t see them larger. I think that is because the default setting for WordPress is not to be able to click on photo. You can change it in the edit to link to file.
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Ah. Just had a go – and if you either Right Click (or two fingers click if on an Apple Mac), you get the option to ‘Open in a new tab’. That seems to work for me.
The photos used to come up larger if you double clicked on them, but that doesn’t seem to happen any more.
I’ll also try out your suggestion. 🙂
Thanks for alerting me Jane. xx
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Didn’t realise. Will give it a go!
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Yippee! Thanks so much RJ! I’ve learnt another bit of technology! – I have linked to ‘Media File’ and I think it works now! Thank you! ❤ ❤ ❤
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An amazing exhibition, I hadn’t heard of it before, so I’ve enjoyed looking through both of your posts. Like you, I like the ones that feature recycling.
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So glad you enjoyed the snippets I have shared CJ – lots more online to explore. I’ll definitely be on the look out for more exhibitions at Somerset House.
We just have to focus on recycling, reusing and upcycling in order to clear up our plastics, don’t we!
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As we might say in Maine, wowsah, that is some lamp.
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Fun isn’t it! I’m imagining a coloured one as well.
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The lamp is really cool! Thanks for sharing:)
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There were very few exhibits that I felt I could make myself, but this was one I might try – as a smaller lamp.
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Wow! These are so interesting; you must have had a wonderful time with this exhibit!
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It was a complete joy. I absolutely LOVED it Kathy!
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Love the lamp stand.
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I know! I have been eyeing up all the plastic lids to see if I could make a table lamp.
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What a spectacular show! I really, really like interactive sculpture and I think it engages people who don’t “do” art under normal circumstances. The examples you showed us are so varied and intriguing!
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I so agree Kerry, I used to take my kids to interactive exhibiitons when I could and when I did my last exhibition, many moons ago – the interactive element was a huge draw and a lot of fun!
I realy enjoyed the exhibits in this exhibition, so glad you have enjoyed them too.
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