Publius Ovidius Naso knew that his name would never die. In the fifteen books of the Metamorphoses, he had attempted nothing less than a history of the world through its transformations: gods into bulls and swans, a statue into a woman, a king into a bird. Nothing stays what it was, but nothing is ever quite lost.

Rome's first emperor exiled him to the shores of the Black Sea. But Ovid's poetry would travel far beyond the boundaries of the empire. For two thousand years, writers from Shakespeare to Shaw, painters from Titian to Waterhouse, and creatives of all types have returned to his stories. His influence lives wherever beauty drives obsession, desire transforms its object, and images take on their own lives.

OVID carries his name. A house of small transformations, for people drawn to beautiful things and comfortable with a changing world.