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The Pratone is a polyurethane lounge chair resembling a plot of grass, with soft blades bending to your shape as you sink into it. Diverging drastically from what an ordinary 1970s lounge seat looked like, it re-imagined the domestic environment as a landscape in response to the conservatism of
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Villa Arpel from Jacques Tati’s 1958 Oscar-winning ‘Mon Oncle’ is a satire of a modernist home. Equipped with latest technologies and labour-saving devices, this home seems to make its inhabitants work more, not less, ridiculing the modernist vogue for functionality and optimisation. Image credit | 1:10 Model. Photo by Benoît Fougeirol.
Exhibition
Home Futures
7 Nov 2018 – 24 Mar 2019
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 21:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 21:00
Cost of entry
Adult £16.00
Child (6 - 15 years) £8.00
Student/concession* £12.00
Family (1 adult + 3 children) £24.00
Family (2 adults + 3 children) £36.00
Learning group tickets
£3-£7 per student (groups of 10 or more)
Address
- 224 - 238 Kensington High Street
- London
England - W8 6AG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- London Bridge / Tower Hill
About
Explore today’s home through the prism of yesterday’s imagination. Are we living in the way that pioneering architects and designers throughout the 20th century predicted, or has our idea of home proved resistant to real change?
The ‘home of the future’ has long intrigued designers and popular culture alike. Immerse yourself in a series of dreamlike passages and rooms exploring yesterday’s visions of the future, as avant-garde speculations are displayed alongside contemporary objects and new commissions.
Discover more than 200 objects and experiences to trace the key social and technological aspirations that have driven change in the home. Historical notions of the mechanised home and the compact home are displayed alongside contemporary phenomena such as connected devices and the sharing economy.
Rare works on display will include original furniture from the Smithsons’ House of the Future (1956), footage from the General Motors Kitchen of Tomorrow (1956), and an original model of Total Furnishing Unit by Joe Colombo (1972).
