Month: March 2023

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Announcing: Anne of Green Places

As I explained in End (ish) of an Era, my time living in Cambridge has come to an end, although I plan to keep posting here occasionally. In the meantime, I’ve arrived at my next home in Grenoble, France, and with that new start has come a new blog! I’m trying out a new platform, Substack, which operates as an email newsletter as well as a traditional website. If you enjoy my posts on The Cambridge Placebook, I invite you to subscribe to my Substack, Anne of Green Places, which will have the same kinds of posts about my explorations of the French Alps, and perhaps more. Read the first post here!

On to snowier peaks
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Lived-in Beauty: Kettle’s Yard

Imagine being confident enough in the aesthetic value of your own domestic whimsy that you display your house for the world in perpetuity. This is what Jim Ede, art collector and friend to artists, did when he bequeathed his Cambridge house and its contents—dubbed Kettle’s Yard—to the University in 1966. He requested that every piece of modern art, every stone and seedpod, every quotidian artifact remain as it was when he was living there. He and his wife Helen even continued to live there while displaying their house for another seven years, continuing a longer tradition of open houses for students and Cambridge residents—a gentle, informal introduction to modern art and a way of life.

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