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.

BRACHFELD GALLERY
Archive
Furniture Collection

A collection of furniture based on the comfort and simplicity of a repeated curved element - one concave the other convex. The chairs and benches have a plain form and neat footprint, yet the 1000mm radiused curves lift them beyond their apparent naivety.

Their key structural joints are also more sophisticated than is first clear. The back-rests floating perpendicular to the seats with no fixings or strutural signs.

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.

GLASS HILL & DAVID DAVID
Chair
Edition of 25

The first element in an ongoing collaboration between Glass Hill and the fashion label David David. The Phillips chair re-made in white beech and embellished with a signature hand-drawn geometric pattern.

http://www.daviddavid.co.uk/

London, Spring 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.

PHILLIPS DE PURY & Co.
Pine
Edition of 24

Constructional grade Russian red pine, laminated and hand turned.

A series of stools whose forms flow within several parameters. They consist of a steep cone foot and a bulbous belly. Some pieces are stained with a unique shade of murky green/black, others left natural - each piece once turned is assessed and given treatment accordingly.

They are then hand lacquered with 8 layers of marine epoxy which is sanded and buffed to a smooth thick coating. The epoxy is then topped off with a hard polyurethane varnish. This gives a bright and sharp finishing layer. The combination of finishes gives the pieces a fully UV stable super high gloss hard wearing surface.

London, Dec 2010.

450 PARK AVENUE
New York
Project Commission

Built in the late 60’s and completed in 1972, 450 Park was designed by architects Emery Roth and Sons, and originally commissioned by the Franklin National Bank. The black granite tower contains 33-stories and 300,000 square feet of floor space. Phillips de Pury are based on the first two floors.

Completed 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.
Chair
Edition of 25

Southern Yellow Pine variously planed, dimensioned and machined.

450mm front seat height pitched at 3degrees to rear along 290mm deep seat.  Back rest opens at 102.5 degrees from seat plane rising to 760mm above floor height and dropping 290mm towards seat back. Overall depth of seat area from back rest plane is 360mm. Seat is mounted to double rails set at an angle 6 degrees from seat edge with 8 no. 4x40mm screws. Both rails are EX45x60mm with a machined top angle of 4 degrees in opposing lateral planes. All legs and support for back rest are morticed into this rail. Front leg mounts perpendicular to rail and seat, back leg at 24 degrees from seat angle and back rest mount at 12.5 degrees on opposing (top) surface. The sides of the chair are parallel.

London, May 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.

ICA
Cup
Self Production

Taken from the Mash Up event feast at the ICA, the ICA cup is a slip cast and clear glazed ceramic tumbler.

Just the right side for a glass of water of a cup of coffee equally. The fluted shape, not just an aesthetic is tactile and functional. It also seems to work just right and the stacking, though expected, adds neatness to the placing.

Glass Hill are producing an edition for the ICA and a version for everyone else.

First edition of 50, April 2010.

 

LOCAL HERO
A new inn
Concept

A concept for a new network of British inns. The Local Hero Inn is the unique combination of food, drink, a place to stay and good portion of the local. Inns sprang up wherever travellers passed and died when patterns of travel changed. Scores are boarded up, they have become signs of decline and neglect.

The Local Hero project will re-discover and re-build the Inn as a new champion of modesty and simple pleasures. The Local Hero will be a realistic counterpoint to the exclusive gastro-inns. It will be grounded in the local area, from the chippy who fits the stairs to the chicken who lays the breakfast roll eggs. By seeing value in the very simple, any closed inn can become an asset and holds within it the possibility of reinstating a lost network of incomparable accommodation.

The British Isles 2010 and onwards.

ICA
Bench
Self production

Taken from the Mash Up event feast at the ICA, the ICA bench is 4m of southern yellow pine, 6 no. 45mm pine dowel and 6 no. solid birch blocks.

A single length of Southern Yellow Pine is ripped to width, the off cut slotting underneath becoming a fin that stiffens the entire length. The birch blocks rebated and mated to the 45mm round dowel legs, then bolted to the underside - removable should the need arise.

All finished in Osmo Polyx-Oil, a hard matte floor lacquer from Germany.

Now resident of the Rochelle School, London.

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.