desirePlate 746 · Dunedin, New Zealand

Larnach Castle

The only castle in New Zealand, a banker's melancholy on a peninsula.

1871 · R.A. Lawson · Oceania

The chamber score

Hine e Hine

Princess Te Rangi Pai · 1907

A lullaby holding a needle of steel.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Larnach Castle, a unique monument of colonial ambition.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Larnach Castle through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Larnach Castle was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.