Walking into the extraordinary home of artists Philip and Charlotte Colbert in Spitalfields is to enter another world, or rather a mix of two worlds. Welcome to Maison Colbert, with its façade of old-timey shopfronts and behind it a studio, display space and a living area that was described by Vogue as a “theatrical funhouse”.
Both artists have left their mark, in their very different surrealist styles, on the building inside and out — from Philip’s pop art lobsters which are in paintings, telephones and carved into the fireplace, to Charlotte’s images of eyes that gaze out from coffee tables and diningroom chairs.
