Studio Iron exhibition is all about chainmail, cowhide and tattooed leather
Artist Isamaya Ffrench has opened her second-ever Studio Iron show as part of this year's London Design Festival, with participants including Andu Masebo and Barnaby Lewis. Studio Iron is the brainchild of Ffrench, a makeup artist and creative direct
Artist Isamaya Ffrench has opened her second-ever Studio Iron show as part of this year's London Design Festival, with participants including Andu Masebo and Barnaby Lewis. Studio Iron is the brainchild of Ffrench, a makeup artist and creative director, who launched her collectible design gallery at Saatchi Yates earlier this year. The project is back for London Design Festival (LDF), on display as part of curator Alex Tieghi-Walker's Perfectly Imperfect programme in the Brompton Design District. Ffrench selected 27 creatives for the exhibition, featuring pieces that challenge ideas about what materials go together. "Our designers are based all over the world, and as someone who's highly into the tactility of objects and art, it was amazing to see all the pieces in real life," she told Dezeen. "To see how they looked, what they felt like, and to witness their scale." "Most of the time, we get to experience art and design on the internet, in museums or in shops as the finished piece with great lighting and great props," she continued. "But I'm more interested in the process, the tools, the raw materials, and the industrial machines. It's a real privilege to be in an artist's space and to talk to them about their inspiration or see them at work." Among the selection is a low-slung hammered steel pouf by Jesse Butterfield, topped with a lacy linen cushion by Jane Wright. Opposite the pouf, an oversized, angular armchair by tattoo artist Thomas Cardiff is on display, crafted from a steel frame with a cowhide-clad seat and tattooed leather sides. Marten Herma Anderson is showing a bloated resin lamp with a gridded pattern and a nickel-plated brass base, while Atelier Fomenta is presenting a bulb encased in a cylindrical slab of rubber held together with rivets. A tangled stainless steel coat rack by Andu Masebo was placed in the corner of the gallery, close to a chunky hammered steel mirror, also by Butterfield. Blacksmith Barnaby Lewis's spindly, skeletal chair features in the show, alongside a stainless steel floor lamp by Wretched Flowers, cloaked in chainmail, gemstones and glass beads. Lewis is among the London-based rising talents spotlighted in the Dezeen Dispatch newspaper we published for LDF. "Barnaby's practice is visceral and poetic at the same time and he's also wildly prolific," Ffrench told Dezeen. "His work deserves more attention." Different-sized furniture and objects make up the selection They form part of the Perfectly Imperfect exhibition in west London Various contrasting materials make up the pieces Armchairs by Andu Masebo and Thomas Cardiff feature in the show
Isamaya Ffrench has opened her second Studio Iron show
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