Press Office at Caro Communications, 020 7713 9388, @carocomms Marta Bogna-Drew: [email protected] Press Release - September 2016 Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison, Martino Gamper and Paul Cocksedge to exhibit ‘Below Stairs’ at Sir John Soane’s Museum during London Design Festival From left to right: Barber & Osgerby; Jasper Morrison; Martino Gamper; Paul Cocksedge Leading UK designers Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison, Martino Gamper and Paul Cocksedge have created new and bespoke work for a group show curated by Rachael Barraclough, which informs how we design for our lives today. Alongside these pieces will be a sensory installation from artist and food historian Tasha Marks. Below Stairs (13 September 2016 to 28 January 2017) is running in partnership with this year’s London Design Festival, and will take place in Sir John Soane’s Museum’s newly reinstated Regency kitchens. The exhibition is part of the opening of new spaces at the Museum, following the completion of the seven-year restoration programme entitled Opening Up the Soane. Curators Rachael Barraclough with assistant curator Zoë Wilkinson have invited five designers, each with a longstanding passion for the culinary and the domestic object, to respond to the previously unseen kitchens of the Georgian house museum. The exhibition’s title, Below Stairs refers to the life of Sir John Soane’s staff and servants in the basement of the house. The kitchens were the domestic heart of the Regency home - a place where elaborate meals were prepared, laundry washed, and provisions for the household ordered and received. The museum’s programme of restoration was initiated in order to bring ‘lost’ spaces of the house back to how they would have been in Sir John Soane’s day. The kitchens – which have never been open to the public before - retain their original flagstone floors, iron cooking ranges and built-in dressers. The designers were invited to consider their work in relation to the domestic spaces of the museum. Visiting the kitchens whilst renovation works were taking place, they were able to engage with the original walls and features, which had been hidden for so many years. Each were inspired by the spaces in different ways.
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PressRelease-September2016EdwardBarber&JayOsgerby,JasperMorrison,MartinoGamperandPaulCocksedgetoexhibit‘BelowStairs’atSirJohnSoane’sMuseumduringLondonDesignFestival
Fromlefttoright:Barber&Osgerby;JasperMorrison;MartinoGamper;PaulCocksedgeLeadingUKdesignersEdwardBarber&JayOsgerby,JasperMorrison,MartinoGamperandPaulCocksedgehavecreatednewandbespokeworkforagroupshowcuratedbyRachaelBarraclough,whichinformshowwedesignforourlivestoday.AlongsidethesepieceswillbeasensoryinstallationfromartistandfoodhistorianTashaMarks.BelowStairs(13September2016to28January2017)isrunninginpartnershipwiththisyear’sLondonDesignFestival,andwilltakeplaceinSirJohnSoane’sMuseum’snewlyreinstatedRegencykitchens.TheexhibitionispartoftheopeningofnewspacesattheMuseum,followingthecompletionoftheseven-yearrestorationprogrammeentitledOpeningUptheSoane.CuratorsRachaelBarracloughwithassistantcuratorZoëWilkinsonhaveinvitedfivedesigners,eachwithalongstandingpassionfortheculinaryandthedomesticobject,torespondtothepreviouslyunseenkitchensoftheGeorgianhousemuseum.Theexhibition’stitle,BelowStairsreferstothelifeofSirJohnSoane’sstaffandservantsinthebasementofthehouse.ThekitchenswerethedomesticheartoftheRegencyhome-aplacewhereelaboratemealswereprepared,laundrywashed,andprovisionsforthehouseholdorderedandreceived.Themuseum’sprogrammeofrestorationwasinitiatedinordertobring‘lost’spacesofthehousebacktohowtheywouldhavebeeninSirJohnSoane’sday.Thekitchens–whichhaveneverbeenopentothepublicbefore-retaintheiroriginalflagstonefloors,ironcookingrangesandbuilt-indressers.Thedesignerswereinvitedtoconsidertheirworkinrelationtothedomesticspacesofthemuseum.Visitingthekitchenswhilstrenovationworksweretakingplace,theywereabletoengagewiththeoriginalwallsandfeatures,whichhadbeenhiddenforsomanyyears.Eachwereinspiredbythespacesindifferentways.
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EdwardBarberandJayOsgerbywhohavedesignedrangesoftableware,day-to-dayobjectsandanumberofdiningtables,wereinterestedinthecentralroleofthekitchentable.InresponsetheyhavecreatedaspecialeditionoftheirTobiIshitableforB&BItaliaintimogreenwithaglossfinish,using50layersoflacquer.AlsodisplayedistheirPortBlackvaseforVenini,whichhasbeenspeciallymadeinblackglass.JasperMorrison’sfondnessforanhonestaestheticprovidesaperfectfitforthemuseum’sutilitariankitchens,whichalignwithMorrison’svisionforfunctionalpareddownobjects.StudyingtheMuseum’sdetailswithinterest,hewantedtoseealloftheoriginaldomesticobjectsthatwouldhavebeenindailyuseinthekitchen.HehascreatedacontemplativeinstallationinSoane'snewlyopenedKitchensbyplacingantiqueglasswarepiecesfromhisownpersonalcollectionintothelimitededitionObjectFrame.JasperMorrisoncommented:ThefactthattheObjectFrameservestostoreanddisplaytheseitems,reducesitspresenceandtheeffectithasontheatmospheretoaminimum,whilstdisplayingthepiecesitenhancestheatmosphereoftheoldkitchenbyaddingobjectswhichwouldoriginallyhavebeenpresent,butwhichhaveforsometimebeenstoredelsewhere.
Image:PaulCocksedge'sSoane'sLight©MarkCocksedge
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Thisprojectreflectsanumberofthemesthatarekeytothedesigner’swork:thesubtleinsertionofcontemporaryobjects(theframe)intoahistoricalsetting(asseenathisexhibitionattheMuséedesArtsDécoratifs,Bordeauxin2009);highlightingthedesignqualitiesofeverydayobjects,asseenathisconcurrentexhibitionTheHardLifeathisShopinShoreditchandhisinterestinthelifeofthekitchen,asectorinwhichthedesignerhasbeenveryactiveandhascollaboratedwithanumbersofdifferentbrands.Part-chefandpart-designer,MartinoGamper’sLondon/Milanfoodpop-upsareindicativeofhisloveofcookingandaffinitywiththekitchen.FascinatedbySirJohnSoane’seclecticdisplayofobjectsanduseofmaterials,hehasincorporatedsomeofthematerialsfoundinthehouseintoaseriesofvases(Duotone,Off-CutLinoandVasenamel),whicharedisplayedinthenewkitchenspaces.PaulCocksedgestudiedtheamber-colouredglassthatSoaneusedinthemuseumtorecreatethewarmglowofMediterraneansunlight.Forhiscontribution,thedesignerhascreatedanevocativelightinstallation,bysealingthewindowsoftherearkitchenwithlayersofcolouredfilminordertocapturethelightandcastanatmosphericglow,bringingSoane’sLightintothehumblekitchenspace ArtistandfoodhistorianTashaMarks,FounderofAVMCuriosities,hascollaboratedwiththemuseumandcuratorstocreateainteractivepieceofworkinresponsetothehistorickitchenandcontemporarydesign’pieces.ShehascreatedabespokeseriesoftactileScentChambers,consistinginthreeglassjarswhichwillreleaseevocativearomastorecreatetheatmosphereofaworkingGeorgiankitchen.BruceBoucher,DirectorofSirJohnSoane’sMuseum,comments:“WearedelightedtobepresentingBelowStairsforthisyear’sLondonDesignFestivalandtobecollaboratingwithsomeofthemostexcitinganddynamicartistsworkingtoday.WebelievethatthesecontemporaryworkscreateafascinatingdialoguewiththerestoredkitchensandtheMuseumasawhole.TheyshowthattheSoaneisnotastaticmuseumbutadynamiccreationinitself,towhichdesigners,artists,andarchitectscontinuetorespond.”RachaelBarraclough,curatorofBelowStairssays:“Thereisalwaysafascinationwithseeingpeople’skitchens,andtheSoaneMuseumkitchenhasanaturalappealtoit.Thereissomethingratherhauntingaboutthisoncebustlingandnoisyplacethatisnowoddly,thequietestandcalmestpartofthemuseum.We’vechosenthesepiecesbecausetheyevokeaghostlyreminderofwhatwas.”XantheArvanitakis,OperationsandCommercialDirectorofSirJohnSoane’sMuseum,says:“ItisanhonourforustopartnerwithLondonDesignFestivalagain,especiallynowinourfourthyearrunning.It’snotonlyawonderfulcommunitytobeapartof,butallowstheMuseumtocontinuetoshareSirJohnSoane’spassionfordesignwiththepublicanddesigncommunity.”
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ENDSInstallationImagesImagesoftheBelowStairsexhibitioncanbedownloadedhere:bit.ly/soaneouts3PRESSOFFICEForfurthercommentsandinterviewspleasecontact:CaroCommunications;02077139388;@carocommsMartaBogna,SeniorAccountDirector:[email protected],SeniorAccountManager:[email protected],SeniorAccountExecutive:[email protected]’sMuseumSirJohnSoane’shouse,museumandlibraryatNo.13Lincoln’sInnFieldshasbeenapublicmuseumsincetheearlynineteenthcentury.OnhisappointmentasProfessorofArchitectureattheRoyalAcademyin1806,Soane(1753-1837)begantoarrangehisbooks,classicalantiquities,castsandmodelssothatstudentsofarchitecturemightbenefitfromaccesstothem.In1833henegotiatedanActofParliamenttopreservethehouseandcollectionafterhisdeathforthebenefitof‘amateursandstudents’inarchitecture,paintingandsculpture.TodaySirJohnSoane’sMuseumisoneofthecountry’smostunusualandsignificantmuseumswithacontinuinganddevelopingcommitmenttoeducationandcreativeinspiration.Themuseumisopenfree:TuesdaytoSaturdayinclusive,10am-5pm.ItisalsoopenonthefirstTuesdayeveningofeachmonthform6-9pm.www.soane.orgSirJohnSoane’sMuseumisaNon-DepartmentalPublicBody(NDPB)whoseprimesponsoristheDepartmentforCulture,MediaandSport.LondonDesignFestival201617–25Septemberwww.londondesignfestival.comRachaelBarracloughworkedinthecontemporarydesignanddecorativeartsworldfor19years.ShecuratedtheannualsellingexhibitionofdecorativeartsanddesignatSotheby’sforfiveyearsandsetupandranthedesignprogrammeatHaunchofVenison.ShenowrepresentsThomasHeatherwick’slimitededitionsandhelpsbuildprivatecollections.
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