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ntroducing our new press office location

VILLAGE PRESS
The Smokehouse
Smokehouse Yard
44 - 46 St John Street
London
EC1M 4DF

Open to public:

Friday 18th July 10am - 8pm
Saturday 19th July 10am - 6pm

Press event and photo call Monday 23rd June 08.
www.lfa2008.org

In association with and part of Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture at Somerset House, with 6A architects.

Hairywood was the first installation commissioned by the Architecture Foundation to launch its new gallery on Old Street. A 6a, Eley Kishimoto collaboration, Hairywood created a temporary public space and landmark for four months in the summer 2005.

The tower creates a threshold into the new gallery space from which to watch the world go by, and offers an escape from the hard surfaces of Old Street. The small space at the top, lined with printed timber and upholstery, is like a fragment of private space open to the street. The exterior, clad with plywood, laser cut with Eley Kishimoto's pattern of Rapunzel's hair allowing dappled light into the interior during day and lit from within by night, glows like a lantern.

The Summer House is a playful challenge of how to re-imagine the possibilities of public space from a new perspective.

The pattern used for Hairywood, the ‘Rapunzel' print from the 'Dark Wood Wander' collection, a story inspired of a princess trapped in a tower, who escapes and flees through a dark wood only to find her own fairytale castle in flames.

Thursday 15 May 2008
18.30 - 20.00
Eley Kishimoto and 6a Architects

Mark Eley of Eley Kishimoto, Mark Emerson of 6a Architects and Elias Redstone of The Architecture Foundation discuss the Hairy wood tower collaboration. Chaired by Masoud Golsorkhi, editor of Tank magazine.

A £10 combined exhibition and talk ticket includes entry to the exhibition (open until 21.00) and glass of wine. A ticket for the talk only is £5 and includes a glass of wine.

From 24 April - 10 August 2008, the Embankment Galleries play host to Skin+Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture.

50 internationally-renowned architects and designers show relationships and parallels between fashion and architecture and over 200 works including iconic garments, 3D architectural models and film footage feature.

ELEY KISHIMOTO and 6a architects ‘Hairywood’ collaboration features alongside the inspiring garments from the ‘Dark Wood Wander’ collection.

Drinks and happenings between 4pm and 8pm. Please join us. Find details in the previous post.

This weeks activities will appear in full on the site next week. We have slipped behind because we have been very very busy!

18th - 22nd September. Open to the public. If you require an appointment to see the collection either for press or buying purpose please contact us info@eleykishimoto.com
All performances will be announced the day before on eleykishimoto.com/news/
We look forwrad to seeing you.

Please join us at the new collaborative store opening and enjoy clothes, champagne and cakes.