MARY GAUDIN

Photographer Mary Gaudin visits Mies van der Rohe’s Villa Tugendhat and captures the delicacy of the architecture using expired black and white film in her Rollei camera. This series explores the way in which Mies van der Rohe has gathered the materials of marble, metal and leather — a combination usually suggested as cold and distant, but through the eye of Gaudin they embody a sense of strength and intimacy…

“The Italian Hotel Albergo Colazzo, near Lake Maggiore, is run by two sisters, now in their 70s, both of whom have recently lost their spouses. They weren’t sure how long they’d be able to keep to hotel running. I’d tagged along with my partner on a weekend Aikido workshop in June. The group stayed in this hotel, seemingly untouched since the 1960s.Each morning I took my time over a breakfast of coffee and home baked Italian lemon cake in the sunny dining room. A lady from Switzerland also spent the mornings in the dining room. She told me each afternoon she would walk in the surrounding hills. She was writing a novel.”