Sheds, Sheds, Sheds is a wonderfully irreverent shed miscellany that
looks at every possible use of a shed from Woolwich to Woolongong.
If there was ever any doubt, Lockdown proved that the shed is more than
simply somewhere to store stuff when the house runs out of space. Sheds
have always had that extra dimension...
Some of our greatest literature has been produced in a shed - Mark
Twain, Arthur Miller, Dylan Thomas, Roald Dahl, Philip Pullman, Virginia
Woolf and George Bernard Shaw created their best works in the garden
shed - or in Thomas's case, a converted garage.
Multi-billion pound businesses such as IKEA, Harley Davidson and
Hewlett-Packard started life in a shed and 1 in 5 are used for something
apart from garden storage.
What do the band Radiohead, classical composer Edvard Grieg and Snoop
Dogg have in common? They have all created music in sheds - Edvard was
so sensitive to noise around the house that he built himself a lakeside
hut. Snoop sold off his shed for charity.
And the shed is an important contributor to the world of art.
ShedBoatShed has won the prestigious Turner Prize (though not the
prestigious Cuprinol Shed of the Year), Claude Monet painted from a shed
mounted on top of a boat, Damien Hirst has a shed studio. Tracey Emin
had a Whitstable Beach Hut that became an art installation and Rachel
Whiteread used a shed to produce a concrete collector's piece Negative
Shed.
We look at the shed galaxy - what is a shed, what is not a shed in the
shed galaxy. Fisherman's hut? Shed. Kiosk? Not a shed.
Packed with an enormous variety of quirky shed stories, such as Brides
Shed Revisited, the wedding hut used on Bournemouth beach to marry
couples with the sound of lapping waves and seagulls, or the shed that
was lifted up like a kite and flew further than the Wright Brothers
managed in Kittyhawke. This and many others will delight in Sheds,
Sheds, Sheds - stories and pictures from the house's best friend.
