Beyond the velvet rope.

  • Mark Ivkovic

Heritage project, shot for the Harewood Estate. Away from the public areas, "Beyond the velvet rope" offers the viewer a glimpse into the private lives of the family who live in one of the UK's grandest privately owned & operated Stately homes. Commissioned by the Harewood Estate curatorial team and the Lascelles family.

A portrait without the faces of those who's story it tells.
I'd expected it to be grand but it was the little fragments of life that really told the story to me. Small trinkets on display amidst art objects, favourite books left out. It was an unusual delight to see a heritage collection curated simply for personal pleasure rather than for the public.
Admit it, you've never seen a lavatory better stocked than your local Waterstones bookshop.