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By Tom Miller
Exhibition
Craft + Manufacture: Industrial Design by Foster + Partners
12 May 2016 – 2 Jul 2016
Event times
Mon-Sat (10am-6pm) Thurs (10am-7pm)
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 110 Drury Lane
- London
- WC2B 5SG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Holborn or Covent Garden
Craft + Manufacture is an exhibition of furniture, fittings, products and lighting developed over the years by Foster + Partners.
About
The exhibition includes models, prototypes, photographs and finished products that explain the team’s history and philosophy: starting with a draughting table from 1981 that spurred the beginnings of a dedicated industrial design team at Foster + Partners, through to bespoke fittings designed for the new Maggies’ Centre Manchester (opening April 2016).
Foster + Partners say: “The collaborative nature of the design team pioneered by Norman Foster has always included engineers, environmental experts, graphic designers, industrial designers and model-makers, as well as architects. An integrated team delivers design solutions which treat the built environment in which we live and work in a holistic way; everything we see and touch is designed, and this was seen as a seamless activity. This philosophy of integrated design is as important to the practice now as it was in its birth in the 1960s.”
Aram Store will be launching Dot and Eva, two of Foster + Partners’ latest light fixtures designed for Lumina, with a special display on the ground floor.
