BRACHFELD GALLERY
Satellite
Exhibition & Installation

An installation designed not to be seen. A blown oval interior is created from the jagged crevices of the containing gallery space - floating from the floor and skimming the fittings and beams of the ceiling.

The exhbition is designed specifically for the space and specifically to show a collection of abstract photographs by Adrian Gaut.

The furniture within the oval space is optimized for viewing the works, with their ergonomics at keen attention despite their proportions being generous.

Paris, Autumn 2011.

DAVID DAVID
Covent Garden
Pop-up Shop

The second collaboration of Glass Hill and David David is a temporary shop at 37 Monmouth Street London WC2. The space is showing the new David David collection as well as pieces from the brands archive. The interior scheme and furniture lifts elements from some of David David's signature prints, as well as developing on the brand's themes of geometry, colour shifts and scanlines.

London, Sept 2011.

PHILLIPS DE PURY & Co.
New York
Shop

A retail space for Phillips de Pury & Company at their new flagship gallery and auction hall in Manhattan. Glass Hill were commissioned to devise a modular yet sophisticated shop fit to display an ever changing selection of design and art objects. This commission follows on from the success of the London retail space.

Completed New York, Spring 2011.

GALLERY LIBBY SELLERS
L Bar
Roadside Bar

With a deadline of 3 weeks and sponsors waiting Libby Sellers approached Glass Hill to design a bar for London Design Festival. With consent given in principle for a bar to serve drinks, for a certain time and of a certain dimension the decision was made to work to the maximum envelope allowed of 2x5 metres. The commission was an opportunity for a small piece of architecture, with few of the limitations normally associated with the building of buildings.

No fixings were made to the pavement or to the surrounding walls, the structure was flat-packed and removed without trace at the end of the week.

Now serving, with some modification, as the Glass Hill office.

London, Sept 2010.

PHILLIPS DE PURY & Co.
Connectors
Exhibition design

Design for a selling show of new studio works from 20 designers including NENDO, Best Made Co. and Peter Marigold.

60 metres of surface over three tables of a modified Howe Truss design. Normally used for Amercian rail bridges the Howe system has a nice density and rhythm, touching the floor gently and terminating in elegant, purposeful downward slopes. The figured but even Douglas Fir of the truss complimented by the non-material quality of the dyed, dense MDF - finished with a crisp laminate.

1000m douglas fir, 2000 Reiser 5x25 pozi counter-sunk self drilling, 25Litres Brent plastics own brand contact adhesive, 58sq m Archtic White elements laminate and 1250Kg Valchromat Blue MDF.

The Saatchi Gallery, London May 2010.

WOODFINCH RARE BOOKS
Paris Photo
Exhibition design

Wood Finch is a well known London book dealer and an institution for collectors based in new premesises on Brook Street. We were contacted to design their new shop, gallery and offices along with taking care of their exhibition design.

This year Wood Finch showed a collection of rare photography books at the Paris Photo fair in the Louvre. We worked on a design to give them a unique and peacfull space to show their books. The interior is completely collapsable and can be packed into a van in a couple of hours.

Le Louvre Paris 2009 with Simon Jones.

RCA
Artbar
Interior project

On a tight budget and an even tighter deadline Glass Hill delivered an open, modern and flexible interior within the Grade 2 listed Darwin building on Kensington Gore, London. The design and choice of materials was a balance between dynamic space filling surfaces and a desire for a subtle restoration of the modernist building fabric and detailing.

The original flooring was re-discovered, as was the full ceiling height and dramatic fine metal frame windows. The buildings familiar language of stone, render and timber was expanded into the new bar elements. The 17m long high-backed seating unit reflects light back into the space and also provides hanging for coats and bags, but can also hold the custom made wooden stools - allowing the space to be cleared almost completely for a variety of events.

Kensington Gore, London 2009.