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The House of Dreams Museum is a terraced house in East Dulwich transformed into the personal art museum of former textile designer and art director Steven Wright. He has spent the last 31 years developing it as a museum dedicated to his dreams, life and love and as a monument to his dead partner and deceased parents. The museum is open to the public several days each year.
Wright has been influenced by Jarvis Cocker's work on outsider art, Bodan Litnianski and the folk arts of Mexico, South America and Asia. He has shown his work at the Halle St. Pierre in Paris and the museum is bequeathed to The National Trust. The museum is the subject of a BBC documentary.
The entire ground floor, gardens and exterior has been turned into one sculpture, with rooms subdivided and every inch of the ceiling, walls, floors and space taken up. Wright lives in a flat upstairs, which is currently habitable but he aims to complete the transformation of the entire house before he dies.