This is just our funky cup of tea.
"A House for Essex" is basically a human-sized dollhouse in the English countryside that's available to rent -- if you're first lucky enough to win a chance to do so through a lottery system. When contemporary artist Grayson Perry was commissioned to design the home for an architecture project, he did what any incredibly creative person would do: He invented an imaginary woman named Julie Cope, and filled the home with trinkets that describe her "life" -- she was married, then divorced after an affair -- and tragic "death" by motorcycle collision.
The house is all kinds of bizarre, but irresistibly cute. Four staggered sections are lined in green-and-white tile with unconventional accents like a motorcycle chandelier, voluptuous clown-like sculpture and massive murals of Julie Cope -- who does not actually exist, if you'll recall.
This is pretty much the trippy, down-the-rabbit-hole wonderland of our dreams.
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