Purple Heart

A range of domestic products exploring the notion of time in Dungeness. Created as part of The Shingle House.

This holiday house or “home from home” was designed and built on the sensations of remoteness and escape. In the passage from the routine of everyday life to ‘desert’ landscape, time is loosened. It is no longer a precious commodity tied to a sequence of events revolving around work, school, travel or the planning efficiencies of life.

Time is something we often want to escape but time can also be playful. The sun rising and setting, the tidal movements, the  signal repetition from the lighthouse, the miniature railway, bird watching, smoking fish or sleeping, these are all measures of time in Dungeness.