Mason's Yard
Mason's Yard is a street in London SW1, England.Overview
Mason's Yard is a cul-de-sac east off Duke Street in the St James's area of London in the City of Westminster.
gallery in Mason's Yard
The White Cube gallery has one of its two locations here, opened in September 2006 at 25–26 Mason's Yard. The plot was previously occupied by an electricity substation.
The London Library is to the south and the Cavendish Hotel to the north on the corner of Duke Street and Jermyn Street.History
The original Ormond Yard was laid out as a 200 feet square plot. It was designed to be a stableyard. It was also formerly known as West Stable Yard. By 1740, the yard was known as Mason's Yard, probably because the owner of the two houses fronting onto both the yard itself and Duke Street was called Henry Mason, a victualler.
The Indica Gallery was a counterculture art gallery in Mason's Yard during the late 1960s, in the basement of the Indica Bookshop. John Dunbar, Peter Asher, and Barry Miles owned the gallery. Paul McCartney supported it and hosted a show of Yoko Ono's work in November 1966, at which Ono met John Lennon.
Gered Mankowitz photographed Jimi Hendrix at his studio in Mason's Yard in 1967.
The Paisnel Gallery was previously located in Mason's Yard, moving here from Fulham Road in the early 1990s.
