How would you describe the interiors of palazzi from the time that Venice’s power and wealth was at its height? Decadent, luxurious and glittering, but would you describe them as disfunctional? To Carpenters Workshop Gallery, the term ‘dysfunction’ is not, as we might think, negative, but related to art it is positively positive: ‘DYSFUNCTIONAL rethinks […]
Take everyday materials such as cardboard, rope, cloth, wood scraps, plastic tubes and aluminium wire, much of it scrap and reshape it into exuberant furniture that reflects the colour, heat, vibrancy, passion and rhythm of Brazil. This was how Humberto Campana (born 1953) and his brother Fernando (born 1961) started designing their unique style of […]
Imaginative, zany, innovative, fun design is alive and well across Europe. Thank goodness the graduates from the best design schools across the continent continue to challenge and innovate. We need this if the UK and Europe are going to continue to maintain their reputation for high quality design, at a time when some governments (ie […]
One of the most influential contemporary Dutch furniture designers, several of Maarten Baas’s unique works have been on show at the Carpenters Workshop Gallery in Mayfair, which has recently moved from the ground floor gallery to a much larger and more flexible space immediately above. Now the furniture is on its way to the Groninger […]
Life and Death – two sides of the same tree – on one branch a figure swings happily; on another a figure swings dead in a noose. On another tree, figures hang exhausted and dying, perhaps from trying to climb up to the light, while in a prison cage, one friend sits doing everyday ablutions, another hangs […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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