Cosmic House, London

The Time Garden at Cosmic House is designed by landscape designer Maggie Keswick Jencks at the home she lived in with her husband Charles Jencks.

Just as the house has it cosmic themes, the garden is organised around the idea of time.

It was Maggie who initiated the plans which Charles would further develop for the Garden of Cosmic Speculation and sparked her husbands interest in landscape. Her gardens were influenced by her study of Chinese gardens and she is known for her book The Chinese Garden (1978).

Before her death in 1995, Maggie wrote the blueprint for Maggie’s Cancer Centres and started design work for the first one in Edinburgh. There are now 27 Maggie’s Centres throughout the UK that respond to ideas how landscape and architecture can be employed in the traumatic encounter with cancer.

The Time Garden.

Interior shots of the house.