Kettle's Yard

Kettle's Yard is a small, quietly extraordinary house in Cambridge that Jim Ede, a curator at the Tate Gallery, created between 1956 and 1973. Ede had a remarkable eye — he befriended artists like Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood and Constantin Brâncuși, acquired their work cheaply, and arranged it throughout his home with pebbles, shells, dried flowers and carefully chosen furniture.

The result is one of the most honest expressions of 'art as a way of living' you'll find anywhere in the world. Nothing is labelled. Nothing is under glass. There are no red ropes. It feels like you've been invited round and your host has just popped out.

Jim Ede gifted the house to the University of Cambridge in 1966, along with the collection, with the specific wish that it remain open as a home, not a gallery.