Robson Cezar’s Solar-Powered Houses From Whitechapel Market

 

Each year at this time, we feature Spitalfields artist Robson Cezar’s houses made from boxes collected for him by the stallholders at Whitechapel Market.

This year, Robson has made affordable houses at £45 each and every one is fitted with a solar panel. If you leave it on a window sill, it will charge in daylight, light up automatically at dusk and the light will go off at dawn. And they will do this more or less indefinitely.

Robson has enjoyed employing the colours, printed lettering and images on the boxes, and made windows from coloured mushroom crates. Each house is a day’s work and he has been working for months to create this spectacular new collection. Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie visited Robson’s studio in Bow to photograph the houses and take his portrait.

We are selling them on a first-come-first-served basis, so if you would like one please email spitalfieldslife@gmail.com giving your first, second and third choice, and we will supply payment details.

Sarah has photographed the houses in darkness and in light to show how they transform.

These houses are sculptures not toys and we do not recommend them for children under the age of twelve.

 

Robson Cezar in his studio with the fruits of his labours

1. From left to right – top row A B C D, middle row E F G, bottom row H I J K

1. From left to right – top row A B C D, middle row E F G, bottom row H I J K

2. From left to right – top row A B C D, middle row E F G, bottom row H I J K

2. From left to right – top row A B C D, middle row E F G, bottom row H I J K

3. From left to right – top row A B C D, middle row E F G, bottom row H I J K

3. From left to right – top row A B C D, middle row E F G, bottom row H I J K

4. From left to right – top row A B C, middle row D E F, bottom row G H I

4. From left to right – top row A B C, middle row D E F, bottom row G H I

Photographs copyright © Sarah Ainslie

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