Frieze Week is when London opens itself to new voices in art and design. This October, Reykjavík’s female-founded art and architecture studio OF A makes its London debut with Somewhere Else, a special two-day event inside a Georgian townhouse at 14 Cavendish Square. Founded by artist Raluca Grada-Emandi and architect Laura Lim Sam, the practice works between London and Iceland.
The project unfolds as a vertical journey through the house, with four installations — described by the studio as “acts” — connected by the grand central staircase. Together they blur the boundaries between art, design and architecture, inviting visitors to consider how buildings can hold climate, memory and imagination at once.
On the ground floor, The Cube is a marble monolith where water flows in an endless loop, evoking geological time and hidden circulation beneath the earth. Upstairs, two acts occupy the first floor: The Moon Garden, a planted hemisphere like a scoop of earth lifted indoors, irrigated by water; and The Spectral Dining Table, an oversized table surrounded by wrapped furniture, carrying the ghostly atmosphere of a social gathering that has ended but not been forgotten. The journey culminates on the top floor in The Cloud Room, where vapour and shifting light drift through empty rooms, turning the building into a fragment of weather.
The project is both a debut and a manifesto for a practice that thrives in the space between disciplines.
Somewhere Else by OF A runs from 16–17 October 2025 at 14 Cavendish Square, London W1. Admission is free.
