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Studio Weave
Location: London, UK
Founded: 2006 -
Studio Weave was founded in London in 2006. They balance a joyful, open-minded approach with technical precision to create a diverse body of work in the UK and abroad. Recent projects include exhibition design at Rainham Hall, Havering and Smith, a pavilion at Clerkenwell Design Week, London.
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Joy and whimsy are at the heart of Studio Weave’s work. Their built projects are often manifestations of fictional tales, leaving their structures flirting between the fantastic and the functional. Freya and Robin, for instance, are two huts in northern England which represent two characters in a fairytale love story that includes the fingerprints of elves and a fair bit of skipping. Another, the Lullaby Factory, is an installation on a hidden façade of London’s Great Ormond Street Children’s hospital run by “Mr Lambert Echo and his Whispersonnel”.
Unsurprisingly, drawing is fundamental to spinning the narratives that form the bases for these built projects. So much of Studio Weave’s work plays with the imagination of children (and so-called “adults”) that their illustrations become an essential part of their architectural mise-en-scène – making visible the fictional worlds woven by the studio. “To us, hand drawing is a funnel for the transfusion of raw ideas from vapoury puffs into tangible blobs”, explains architect Amelia Hunter. Their drawing process allows for the “accidental conquests and failures” to emerge from “characterful lines of lead and masses of biro”, and eventually into “pragmatic form”. It’s all very sweet – maybe too sweet for some – but the kids love it. I (gk)
Previous page: Life Drawing (in a car park). This page: Sketches for the Lullaby Factory, London. (Images courtesy Studio Weave)
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