This is a tiny story about many tiny stories. These narratives may be small, but they are richly felt and intimately understood by their makers and readers. Not all these stories are plainly stated: while some are written down, others are uncovered, interpreted, hidden – even unidentified – or still being made.
The processes of storytelling and making underpin Six Chimney House by Vokes and Peters, an adaptation to a house for a professional creative couple, their teenage children and their dog. It is the stories of the client, of the previous inhabitants, and of the place that define the habits and rituals accommodated in this house.
The owners were asked to begin
