Public Projects

The Restoration of Hoglands - the home of Sculptor Henry Moore and his family

Hoglands is a Grade II, medieval house in Hertfordshire which was the family home of the Sculptor Henry Moore, his wife Irene and daughter Mary from 1940 and for the remainder of Moore’s life and career. We won a competition to restore the house Hoglands and the Etching/ Top Studio, which was Moore’s modest work space where he produced many of the famous sculptures we all know today.

Our approach to this project was to restore the house back to exactly as it had been during Moore’s height in the 1960s, so visitors can walkthrough and experience the home life of Artist. This throw up various challenges as some of materials and fittings no longer exist today, so we used specialists to make up replicas. The metal canopy strip light fittings in the Top Studio are one such example. The Henry Moore Foundation restored the furnishings much of which has kindly been loaned by The Henry Moore Family Collection and the gardens were restored by Yvonne Innes. The house and gardens are open to the public.