Qualla: Dennis Severs' House https://qualla.com/dennis-severs-house en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Dennis Severs' House https://qualla.com/dennis-severs-house Dennis Severs' House: Introduction https://qualla.com/dennis-severs-house/ Dennis Severs arrived in London from California in the 1970s with a horse-drawn carriage and an ambition to live as though time had not moved forward. He found what he needed in Spitalfields: a Georgian terraced house at 18 Folgate Street, built around 1724, in a neighbourhood that the property boom had not yet reached. He bought it, stripped out everything modern, and set about recreating the interior as it might have looked when a family of Huguenot silk weavers lived there, room by room, decade by decade, century by century. What he created is not quite a museum, not quite a theatrical set, and not quite a home — though it was all three of those things at once.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/dennis-severs-house-wp/gcpv-dennis-severs-house-the-last-days-and-what-remains.mp3 0:06 4 full Dennis Severs' House: Spitalfields as Backdrop https://qualla.com/dennis-severs-house/ The house stands in one of London's most historically layered neighbourhoods. Folgate Street itself is a short walk from Christ Church Spitalfields, the Hawksmoor masterpiece built in 1729 to assert Anglican authority over the same Huguenot community Severs was commemorating. The...

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