Image by Serie Architects Serie Architects is transforming a factory in Hangzhou, China, into office and commercial space.
Catherine Ince, curator, Barbican Art Centre: Asif Khan
“Khan, who was born in London, set up his own studio working in the fields of innovative architecture, products, furniture and interiors in 2008, and received a series of impressive commissions immediately after his studies at the Architectural Association, notably the West Beach Cafe in Littlehampton — a flexible seaside ‘shelter.’ In 2010 Khan was designer-in-residence at the Design Museum, during which time he developed Harvest, a series of furniture prototypes molded from the delicate plant Gypsophila; the foliage was freeze-dried and coated with a resin to give stability and structure. (The pieces are now produced by the Japanese company Idée.) Whether fashioning furniture from flowers or designing interiors with meager means (see his Christo-like string-wrapped pop-up Pound Shop in East London), Khan has an inventiveness and enthusiasm for all areas of design that yields delightful results.”
Highlights for 2011: new lighting and furniture at the Milan furniture fair; a restaurant in London’s Borough Food Market (collaborating with Paul Smith on the uniforms and chef Isaac McHale on the tableware); a staircase made from a three-foot-diameter oak tree; a country cottage with a rope bridge connecting the rooms; new products for Muji; and a project for Design Miami.
Zachary Eastwood-Bloom Zachary Eastwood-Bloom’s Digital Decay chair, made of CNC-milled wood, explores the roles and technology and craft in design.
Clare Grafik, senior curator, the Photographers’ Gallery: Maurizio Anzeri
“I predict that in this increasingly screen-dominated world, the attraction of the handcrafted artwork and photographic collage will continue to experience a renaissance. Featured at the Photographers’ Gallery in a group show entitled ‘The Photographic Object,’ Maurizio Anzeri is an Italian artist based in London whose work incorporates drawing, sculpture and photography. Using vintage studio portraits found in flea markets, he responds to each (unidentified) sitter with a unique configuration of colored thread stitched into the surface of the photograph. Rather than a gesture of annihilation, these patterns — often formed over the faces of the subjects — seem to augment their sitters’ identities. What results are unique and intimate artworks that take the power of the anonymous photograph into the realm of a poetic personal vision.”
Who will be making it big in 2011? I asked five movers and shakers in London’s cultural world to anoint their chosen young designers. From embroidered photography to furniture fashioned from flowers, here are next year’s best and brightest.
Highlights for 2011: a 440-unit housing complex in Bratislava; adaptive reuse of factory to commercial and offices in Hangzhou, China; “Monsoon,” an installation for live performances at the Kennedy Center NFL Jerseys, Washington, D.C., during the Maximum India Festival. According to Serie, the design will consist of “a handmade three-dimensional carpet suspended in space, bringing a shower of colors into the space.”
Image by Carmody GroarkeCarmody Groarke’s design for a memorial to the victims of the 2004 tsunami will be built at the Natural History Museum in London.
Maurizio Anzeri, courtesy of the Photographers’ Gallery, London In works like “Nadia,” Maurizio Anzeri transforms flea-market photographic portraits with colored thread.
Julian Abrams Asif Khan designed the West Beach Cafe, a flexible seaside “shelter” in Littlehampton, England.
Highlights for 2011: a tsunami memorial at the Natural History Museum and the exhibition design for “Postmodernism: Style & Subversion” at the Victoria and Albert Museum in August.
Highlights for 2011: an exhibition at the Royal British Society of Sculptors in June that examines the notion of metamorphosis; a project for the New English Ballet; curating an exhibition on themes of drawing by digital artists, makers and designers; showing a new body of work at an exhibition in July.
Deyan Sudjic, director, Design Museum: Carmody Groarke
“Kevin Carmody and Andrew Groarke are two London architects who have achieved a lot in the few years since they left David Chipperfield’s office, with projects that put them in that promising territory between art, installation and design. They worked on Carsten Höller’s Double Club, a pop-up restaurant on top of a car park with a spectacular view of London’s half-built Olympic Stadium, and the Design Museum’s current exhibition on fashion illustration. They also designed the memorial to the victims of the 2005 terrorist bombing of London. Their work is subtle, thoughtful and points to a new mood in design in London.”
Highlights for 2011: a group exhibition in April curated by Mariuccia Casadio (Vogue Italia’s art critic) at Gallery A Palazzo in Brescia, Italy.
Sarah Ichioka, director, the Architecture Foundation: Serie Architects
Louise Shannon, curator NFL Jerseys, Contemporary Programs, Victoria and Albert Museum: Zachary Eastwood-Bloom
“Zachary Eastwood-Bloom has been busy since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2010. His M.A. project is currently on tour with the Crafts Council’s exhibition “Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft,” and he has exhibited with a number of galleries across London. His profile was boosted during the London Design Festival in September. His works “Information Ate My Table” and “Digital Decay” (2010) play with the notions of technology and craft as design hurtles toward a digital-only production cycle. He is among a group of artists and designers who are exploring the role of technology wherein the tangible and immaterial collide, producing works that blur the boundaries between product and sculpture.”
“While the Architecture Foundation will continue to explore short-lived, low-budget interventions, my New Year’s resolution is to balance pop-ups with more substantive architecture. I would keep an eye on Serie Architects, a firm more notable for the ambition of its intellectual approach than for any immediate buzz factor or ease of accessibility. Serie’s business model is interesting too: these emerging contenders activate — with apparent ease, agility and equality — their network of young partners in London, Mumbai and Beijing. The firm has already completed two refined, ambitious interiors in India NFL Jerseys, and is set to finish larger-scale projects in Slovakia and China next year. I wager that we’ll soon hear announcements of well-deserved commissions in London. But I’m certainly not their first admirer: Serie recently won Building Design magazine’s coveted UK Young Architect of the Year Award.”
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