The Farm Shop
16 September – 15 October 2023
Brompton Design District
209 Brompton Road, SW3 2EJ
London Design Festival Press Day:
Friday 15 September 10am – 3pm
Private View:
Saturday 16 September 6 pm – 10 pm
Brompton District Late Night Opening:
Thursday 21 September 6 pm – 9 pm
The Farm Shop is a curatorial project that brings together artists, designers and architects to create a playful, convivial experience drawing from the knowledge, resources and practices centred around Grymsdyke Farm in Buckinghamshire. Conceived and curated by Marco Campardo, Guan Lee and Luca Lo Pinto, the project is set at the intersection of art and design, blurring the boundaries between both disciplines by crafting a total-design space within which visitors can participate in a series of experiences created by contemporary artists. Opening in the occasion of the London Design Festival and coinciding with Frieze Art Fair, the exhibition will present projects by Nicola Pecoraro, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, and Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann conceived specifically for this occasion and set within a space created by eighteen contemporary designers.
The project is presented by Fels and situated in the context of Brompton Design District, where it will be on display from 16 September until 15 October. Artists events that will animate the space are scheduled on 16 September, 8 and 9 October 2023.
The Farm Shop is conceived as a vehicle for exploring modes of production that are rooted in vernacular design knowledge, visual language and materials. Just like any farm shop, the exhibition puts on display products that emerge as a result of direct engagement with the farm’s local community, manufacturing skills and material palette. Thinking about the relationship of people and the spaces they live in, invited designers examine how setting and community inform design and how it connects us to the people and places around us. With their work created for The Farm Shop, they seek to explore where the things around us come from and how we can care for them.
Set-up by Guan Lee, Grymdsyke Farm was conceived as a communal space through which to generate new knowledge about design production. In his words, “At Grymsdyke Farm, I set out to create a communal workshop and almost 20 years later I came to realise that our community is influenced by how we make and what we make. For ‘The Farm Shop’, we wanted to share that sense of community by bringing together an exciting group of designers to create a collection that expresses our relationships to the farm.”
Eighteen contemporary designers have been invited to partake in a residency on the farm over the summer of 2023, utilising its facilities to produce one element of a homeware and dining collection. Objects such as a walnut bench crafted from a tree felled on the farm’s grounds by Marco Campardo, to floor lamps created by Andu Masebo that reference the sculptural forms the surrounding nature as well as the machine-filled workshops, or everyday goods such as linen beeswax aprons designed by Nathalie Bagnoud from local hives, all come from a direct interaction with Grymsdyke Farm.
Situated in this context, Nicola Pecoraro, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, and Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann created projects that use food as their primary vehicle for exploring the conviviality and community of Grymsdyke Farm. Animating The Farm Shop, the happenings, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, will blur the boundaries of art and utility, exploring what we consume and how we consume.
The project is presented by Fels, a platform dedicated to showcasing unique artworks, hybrid objects and contemporary furniture, at the intersection of function, aesthetics, concept and outcome. For Fels, this project is unique in its approach and scale.
In their words, “We are thrilled to present this project at London Design Festival 2023. The project is ambitious and playful and involves so many designers, studios and curators we admire. The whole ethos of the project works so nicely with Brompton Design District’s theme of ‘Conviviality – The Art of Living’ and having an entire collection designed with such a rich narrative at its core is something we are very excited to show in the festival’s leading district.”
Participating designers:
Andu Masebo, Theodóra Alfreðsdóttir, Nathalie Bagnoud, EJR Barnes, Juli Bolaños-Durman, Marco Campardo, Sammi Cherryman, Miranda Keyes, Guan Lee, Jessie Lee, Jaclyn Pappalardo, Parti, Michael Schoner, Tino Seubert, TBA, Studio Thus That, Lorenzo Vitturi, Jamie Wolfond
Participating artists:
Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Nicola Pecoraro
About Fels:
Through the presentation of unique artworks, hybrid objects and furniture, Fels aim to continue their research of the various intersections connecting function, aesthetics, concept and outcome. Previous exhibitions include: Where Things Land Down, Against The Grain, In The Direction of Colour, Beyond Industry and Satellites.
About Marco Campardo:
Shaping materials into domestic objects, Marco Campardo seeks to subvert or adapt industrial manufacturing processes to propose an alternative to standardised, mass production. Playing with both high-end and lo-fi methods and materials, high value is attributed to craftsmanship resulting in objects both aesthetically and conceptually refined, whose final forms are defined by their own processes of making.
Campardo’s projects have been documented across various design publications, including Wallpaper Magazine, Architectural Digest, Domus magazine, New York Times, Sight Unseen, Design Milk, Dezeen, Living Corriere, Surface Magazine, Monocle and the Financial Times. His project Elle received the Wallpaper* Design Award 2020 for Best Paint Job. He has most recently received the Ralph Saltzman Prize 2023 by the Design Museum.
About Guan Lee:
Dr. Guan Lee is the director of Grymsdyke Farm, a research facility, fabrication workshop and living-working space for architects, artists and designers in Buckinghamshire, UK. His practice explores the essential connections between processes of design, making and place. Key projects have included a permanent installation of 3D-printed tiles for the V&A South Kensington, London; and POLiROCK, a fired clay made of recycled manufacturing waste that can be used for furniture and everyday objects, including a lighting sculpture for Canadian label Gabriel Scott at Milan Design Week 2022. Lee teaches at the Royal College of Art and is an Associate Professor of Architecture and co-founder of Material Architecture Lab at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
About Luca Lo Pinto:
Luca Lo Pinto is the artistic director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. From 2014 till 2019 he worked as curator of Kunsthalle Wien. He is co-founder of the magazine and publishing house NERO. He produced a range of solo exhibitions with artists including Simone Forti, Nathalie du Pasquier, Jason Dodge, Tony Cokes, Cinzia Ruggeri, Camille Henrot, Olaf Nicolai, Pierre Bismuth, Babette Mangolte, Lawrence Weiner, Gelatin & Liam Gillick, Charlemagne Palestine, Lisa Ponti, Darren Bader as well as publications with Emilio Prini, Mario Garcia Torres and Mario Diacono.
In 2012 he edited the book Documenta 1955 – 2012. The endless story of two lovers. He has been a contributor to numerous exhibition catalogues and magazines, including Spike, Mousse, Flash Art, Purple, Rolling Stone.
Contacts:
For further information please contact Alison Bartlett at
thefarmshopldf@gmail.com
Grymsdyke Farm on Instagram
The Farm Shop
16 September – 15 October 2023
Brompton Design District
209 Brompton Road, SW3 2EJ
London Design Festival Press Day:
Friday 15 September 10am – 3pm
Private View:
Saturday 16 September 6 pm – 10 pm
Brompton District Late Night Opening:
Thursday 21 September 6 pm – 9 pm
The Farm Shop is a curatorial project that brings together artists, designers and architects to create a playful, convivial experience drawing from the knowledge, resources and practices centred around Grymsdyke Farm in Buckinghamshire. Conceived and curated by Marco Campardo, Guan Lee and Luca Lo Pinto, the project is set at the intersection of art and design, blurring the boundaries between both disciplines by crafting a total-design space within which visitors can participate in a series of experiences created by contemporary artists. Opening in the occasion of the London Design Festival and coinciding with Frieze Art Fair, the exhibition will present projects by Nicola Pecoraro, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, and Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann conceived specifically for this occasion and set within a space created by eighteen contemporary designers.
The project is presented by Fels and situated in the context of Brompton Design District, where it will be on display from 16 September until 15 October. Artists events that will animate the space are scheduled on 16 September, 8 and 9 October 2023.
The Farm Shop is conceived as a vehicle for exploring modes of production that are rooted in vernacular design knowledge, visual language and materials. Just like any farm shop, the exhibition puts on display products that emerge as a result of direct engagement with the farm’s local community, manufacturing skills and material palette. Thinking about the relationship of people and the spaces they live in, invited designers examine how setting and community inform design and how it connects us to the people and places around us. With their work created for The Farm Shop, they seek to explore where the things around us come from and how we can care for them.
Set-up by Guan Lee, Grymdsyke Farm was conceived as a communal space through which to generate new knowledge about design production. In his words, “At Grymsdyke Farm, I set out to create a communal workshop and almost 20 years later I came to realise that our community is influenced by how we make and what we make. For ‘The Farm Shop’, we wanted to share that sense of community by bringing together an exciting group of designers to create a collection that expresses our relationships to the farm.”
Eighteen contemporary designers have been invited to partake in a residency on the farm over the summer of 2023, utilising its facilities to produce one element of a homeware and dining collection. Objects such as a walnut bench crafted from a tree felled on the farm’s grounds by Marco Campardo, to floor lamps created by Andu Masebo that reference the sculptural forms the surrounding nature as well as the machine-filled workshops, or everyday goods such as linen beeswax aprons designed by Nathalie Bagnoud from local hives, all come from a direct interaction with Grymsdyke Farm.
Situated in this context, Nicola Pecoraro, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, and Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann created projects that use food as their primary vehicle for exploring the conviviality and community of Grymsdyke Farm. Animating The Farm Shop, the happenings, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, will blur the boundaries of art and utility, exploring what we consume and how we consume.
The project is presented by Fels, a platform dedicated to showcasing unique artworks, hybrid objects and contemporary furniture, at the intersection of function, aesthetics, concept and outcome. For Fels, this project is unique in its approach and scale.
In their words, “We are thrilled to present this project at London Design Festival 2023. The project is ambitious and playful and involves so many designers, studios and curators we admire. The whole ethos of the project works so nicely with Brompton Design District’s theme of ‘Conviviality – The Art of Living’ and having an entire collection designed with such a rich narrative at its core is something we are very excited to show in the festival’s leading district.”
Participating designers:
Andu Masebo, Theodóra Alfreðsdóttir, Nathalie Bagnoud, EJR Barnes, Juli Bolaños-Durman, Marco Campardo, Sammi Cherryman, Miranda Keyes, Guan Lee, Jessie Lee, Jaclyn Pappalardo, Parti, Michael Schoner, Tino Seubert, TBA, Studio Thus That, Lorenzo Vitturi, Jamie Wolfond
Participating artists:
Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Nicola Pecoraro
About Fels:
Through the presentation of unique artworks, hybrid objects and furniture, Fels aim to continue their research of the various intersections connecting function, aesthetics, concept and outcome. Previous exhibitions include: Where Things Land Down, Against The Grain, In The Direction of Colour, Beyond Industry and Satellites.
About Marco Campardo:
Shaping materials into domestic objects, Marco Campardo seeks to subvert or adapt industrial manufacturing processes to propose an alternative to standardised, mass production. Playing with both high-end and lo-fi methods and materials, high value is attributed to craftsmanship resulting in objects both aesthetically and conceptually refined, whose final forms are defined by their own processes of making.
Campardo’s projects have been documented across various design publications, including Wallpaper Magazine, Architectural Digest, Domus magazine, New York Times, Sight Unseen, Design Milk, Dezeen, Living Corriere, Surface Magazine, Monocle and the Financial Times. His project Elle received the Wallpaper* Design Award 2020 for Best Paint Job. He has most recently received the Ralph Saltzman Prize 2023 by the Design Museum.
About Guan Lee:
Dr. Guan Lee is the director of Grymsdyke Farm, a research facility, fabrication workshop and living-working space for architects, artists and designers in Buckinghamshire, UK. His practice explores the essential connections between processes of design, making and place. Key projects have included a permanent installation of 3D-printed tiles for the V&A South Kensington, London; and POLiROCK, a fired clay made of recycled manufacturing waste that can be used for furniture and everyday objects, including a lighting sculpture for Canadian label Gabriel Scott at Milan Design Week 2022. Lee teaches at the Royal College of Art and is an Associate Professor of Architecture and co-founder of Material Architecture Lab at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.
About Luca Lo Pinto:
Luca Lo Pinto is the artistic director of MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. From 2014 till 2019 he worked as curator of Kunsthalle Wien. He is co-founder of the magazine and publishing house NERO. He produced a range of solo exhibitions with artists including Simone Forti, Nathalie du Pasquier, Jason Dodge, Tony Cokes, Cinzia Ruggeri, Camille Henrot, Olaf Nicolai, Pierre Bismuth, Babette Mangolte, Lawrence Weiner, Gelatin & Liam Gillick, Charlemagne Palestine, Lisa Ponti, Darren Bader as well as publications with Emilio Prini, Mario Garcia Torres and Mario Diacono.
In 2012 he edited the book Documenta 1955 – 2012. The endless story of two lovers. He has been a contributor to numerous exhibition catalogues and magazines, including Spike, Mousse, Flash Art, Purple, Rolling Stone.
Contacts:
For further information please contact Alison Bartlett at
thefarmshopldf@gmail.com
Grymsdyke Farm on Instagram