15th April 2024
April news: Giles Tettey Nartey + Parti go against the grain
Highlights from Milan, new public artwork in East London, Citizens Design Bureau brings straw-bale buildings to National Trust, and we might have a job for you…
Eleanor Hill and Giles Tettey Nartey exploring their prototypes. Image by Dan Medhurst.
American Hardwood Export Council
Giles Tettey Nartey and Parti celebrate maple in Milan
Giles Tettey Nartey and Parti celebrate maple in Milan
At this year’s Salone del Mobile, AHEC shines the spotlight on maple – a valuable yet underused hardwood with a delicate colour and a beautifully fine grain – through two experimental creative commissions – the latest in its ongoing quest to showcase the untapped design potential of hardwood timbers.
As part of the Wallpaper* ‘Class of ’24’ exhibition at the Triennale, artist and architect Giles Tettey Nartey explores Ghanaian culture, everyday ritual and performance with his Communion table. Parti, the interdisciplinary studio founded in 2015 by Eleanor Hill and Tom Leahy, is pushing the possibilities of CNC to create furniture inspired by the fold and flow of fabric.
More about AHEC in Milan
As part of the Wallpaper* ‘Class of ’24’ exhibition at the Triennale, artist and architect Giles Tettey Nartey explores Ghanaian culture, everyday ritual and performance with his Communion table. Parti, the interdisciplinary studio founded in 2015 by Eleanor Hill and Tom Leahy, is pushing the possibilities of CNC to create furniture inspired by the fold and flow of fabric.
More about AHEC in Milan
Render of the new visitors centre for the National Trust by Citizens Design Bureau. Visual created by Secchi Smith.
Citizens Design Bureau x National Trust
Planning secured for sustainable straw structure on 900-acre Staffs estate
Planning secured for sustainable straw structure on 900-acre Staffs estate
Citizens Design Bureau – the forward-thinking architecture practice headed up by Katy Marks – has just been granted planning permission for a new welcome centre for the 17th-century Grade I-listed Shugborough Estate in Staffordshire – pushing the possibilities of sustainable construction in the process.
Improving access to the site, re-wilding parts of the estate, and enriching the overall visitor experience, the ambitious architectural project is part of the National Trust’s larger plan to achieve net zero by 2030. Curving dramatically around an ancient oak, the new visitor centre is the largest and most significant element of Citizen Design Bureau’s plans, featuring an inventive use of locally sourced materials: a timber structure with straw-bale infill, which is both energy-efficient and environmentally sensitive.
Net zero heroes
Improving access to the site, re-wilding parts of the estate, and enriching the overall visitor experience, the ambitious architectural project is part of the National Trust’s larger plan to achieve net zero by 2030. Curving dramatically around an ancient oak, the new visitor centre is the largest and most significant element of Citizen Design Bureau’s plans, featuring an inventive use of locally sourced materials: a timber structure with straw-bale infill, which is both energy-efficient and environmentally sensitive.
Net zero heroes
Portrait of Helen Cammock at the River Lea. Courtesy The Line.
Helen Cammock x The Line
New public artwork to be unveiled for East London sculpture trail
New public artwork to be unveiled for East London sculpture trail
Winning the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2017, and jointly awarded the Turner Prize in 2019, Helen Cammock is one of the leading figures in British art today – and the latest to join the roster of artists featuring on The Line.
The public-art trail follows the waterways of East London down from Stratford to North Greenwich, bringing creative interest and energy to an evolving post-industrial landscape. Helen’s intervention is set to be installed roughly halfway along the route, at the borough boundary between Tower Hamlets and Newham, and place themes of landscape, movement and migration in conversation with a changing roster of artworks by members of the local community.
Follow The Line
The public-art trail follows the waterways of East London down from Stratford to North Greenwich, bringing creative interest and energy to an evolving post-industrial landscape. Helen’s intervention is set to be installed roughly halfway along the route, at the borough boundary between Tower Hamlets and Newham, and place themes of landscape, movement and migration in conversation with a changing roster of artworks by members of the local community.
Follow The Line
Interior image of Frân Wen. Image by Morgan O'Donovan.
Manalo & White
Listed Bangor church given new life as home of theatre company Frân Wen
Listed Bangor church given new life as home of theatre company Frân Wen
With a focus on supporting young people from low-income backgrounds to take part in the arts, Frân Wen creates challenging and inspiring Welsh-language theatre. Having outgrown its previous building, the company sought a new home in the Grade II-listed Victorian church of St Mary’s in Bangor.
Led by Manalo & White, the redevelopment introduced vital conservation work and created a dedicated state-of-the-art rehearsal space. Conducted in close collaboration with Frân Wen and the community, the conversion brought considerable change to the former church’s nave and undercroft, significantly expanding the capabilities of the site while remaining sensitive to the heritage architecture. Known as Nyth (Welsh for ‘Nest’), the space now provides three main artistic spaces, with the biggest accommodating up to 80 people.
Take a bow
Led by Manalo & White, the redevelopment introduced vital conservation work and created a dedicated state-of-the-art rehearsal space. Conducted in close collaboration with Frân Wen and the community, the conversion brought considerable change to the former church’s nave and undercroft, significantly expanding the capabilities of the site while remaining sensitive to the heritage architecture. Known as Nyth (Welsh for ‘Nest’), the space now provides three main artistic spaces, with the biggest accommodating up to 80 people.
Take a bow
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Zetteler needs a new design and interiors publicist
If you’re someone who truly cares about design and what it can do for and with society, has a deep knowledge of the design and interiors landscape, is a dab hand at pitching, and is excited by the kind of stuff we talk about in this newsletter, we’d love to hear from you.
It’s a new role for us here at Zetteler, so it could be yours for the shaping, and what we’re really after is someone driven, collaborative and curious, who can separate the story from the noise, and knows how to pitch and to whom.
The full job description is on our website – and on the Design Can Jobs Board – now.
It’s a new role for us here at Zetteler, so it could be yours for the shaping, and what we’re really after is someone driven, collaborative and curious, who can separate the story from the noise, and knows how to pitch and to whom.
The full job description is on our website – and on the Design Can Jobs Board – now.
Berlin-based artist and 2023 grantee Diren Demir. Image by Michael Antoni.
The Supporting Act Foundation
Open call offers €10k to artists and €50k to nonprofits seeking social change
Open call offers €10k to artists and €50k to nonprofits seeking social change
Calling all artists and those using art for social change! The next open call from the Supporting Act Foundation will go live on 30 April, offering no-strings grants of €10k for artists and €50k for non-profit community arts organisations.
With a focus on marginalised voices and those using art for social change, the Foundation champions a unique approach to arts funding – embracing condition-free grants with minimal reporting, known more broadly as trust-based philanthropy. We love this forward-looking alternative to the hoop-jumping world of arts funding – help us spread the word!
Better art, better world
With a focus on marginalised voices and those using art for social change, the Foundation champions a unique approach to arts funding – embracing condition-free grants with minimal reporting, known more broadly as trust-based philanthropy. We love this forward-looking alternative to the hoop-jumping world of arts funding – help us spread the word!
Better art, better world
TEMPLO’s graphic identity for John Akomfrah’s 2024 British Pavilion.
TEMPLO x John Akomfrah
Designing the identity for ‘Listening All Night to the Rain’ for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Designing the identity for ‘Listening All Night to the Rain’ for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
From confronting the legacy of colonialism to exploring marginalised voices, John Akomfrah is renowned for his critical interrogation and reinvention of the past. Yet rather than simply delve into history, he’s set to make it, with ‘Listening All Night to the Rain’ – his exhibition at the British pavilion for Venice 2024.
The show opens next week, and features an inventive graphic identity from the incomparable team at TEMPLO.
The show opens next week, and features an inventive graphic identity from the incomparable team at TEMPLO.
Fever Dream by Emma Stocklassa, available on Hem X.
Hem X
An uncompromisingly creative special projects platform
An uncompromisingly creative special projects platform
We cannot stop gushing about this incredible bowl on Hem X, Hem’s platform for creative collaborations. This is ‘Fever Dream’, the recently launched piece by artist Emma Stocklassa, which we’re going to invest in immediately.
Crafted from polished aluminium, Fever Dream mimics the delicate contours of a soft pillow, achieved through the inflation of metal sheets welded together. Curated by Arranging Things, the piece comes in a hand-signed limited edition of 12, made exclusively for Hem.
Crafted from polished aluminium, Fever Dream mimics the delicate contours of a soft pillow, achieved through the inflation of metal sheets welded together. Curated by Arranging Things, the piece comes in a hand-signed limited edition of 12, made exclusively for Hem.
Expansive views on the way to Milan 2023, by our very own Sabine Zetteler (hi).
Zetteler
Choo choo! choose trains
Choo choo! choose trains
With Milan approximately ten seconds away from happening, it’s a little too late to book a train to get there (though you could still try). But if you’re kicking yourself for not planning ahead this time (quite rightly) – especially after hearing us talk about how much more fun and less carbon intensive it is – then now is the moment to make a change.
We’ll be riding the railways to 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen this June, making our way through France and Germany until we reach Denmark. Come with us. Choo choo!
We’ll be riding the railways to 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen this June, making our way through France and Germany until we reach Denmark. Come with us. Choo choo!
Black Females in Architecture
Final week to help fund their latest project
Final week to help fund their latest project
Black Females in Architecture (BFA) is a social enterprise and global membership network founded to connect and support Black women within the architecture, design and construction industry.
The group has recently launched a crowdfunder for Looking Back to Look Forward, a film documenting BFA's research into matriarchal and spatial practices on the African continent. The aim is to model an ethical and sustainable Black-female-led design practice that champions social and environmental value in every output.
Chip in today (and/or ask your employer to)
The group has recently launched a crowdfunder for Looking Back to Look Forward, a film documenting BFA's research into matriarchal and spatial practices on the African continent. The aim is to model an ethical and sustainable Black-female-led design practice that champions social and environmental value in every output.
Chip in today (and/or ask your employer to)
Andu Masebo’s Tubular Chair will feature in Wallpaper* ‘Class of ’24’ exhibition. Images courtesy of TON.
Andu Masebo
Three exhibitions in Milan; two in London
Three exhibitions in Milan; two in London
Having just has his work exhibited alongside Enzo Mari at the Design Museum, Andu Masebo is now on his way to showcase his talents across Milan – at the Wallpaper* ‘Class of ’24’ exhibition at the Triennale, the Farm Shop at Theatro Milano, and as part of the British Council’s ‘Circular Cultures’ exhibition at Base Milano. Closer to home in London, he’ll show powder-coated steel stools and a kinetic ceiling-mounted steel sculpture at Aram’s 60th anniversary exhibition in May.
We’ve always said he’s one to watch. Now more than ever.
Keep up with Andu here
We’ve always said he’s one to watch. Now more than ever.
Keep up with Andu here
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