As part of the Six City’s design festival Timorous Beasties have co-curated an exhibition looking at the history of the use of the natural world in interior design.
This unique exhibition has been specially conceived for DCA to feature as part of the Six Cities Design Festival, Scotland’s first international festival of design. Selected by Timorous Beasties, the Glasgow based design duo whose own projects include a dramatic reinterpretation of early 18th century Toile de Jouy wallpaper, 'Peacocks Among The Ruins' brings together examples of historical and contemporary wallpaper, textiles and objects by a diverse range of designers from around the globe.
The flora and fauna of our natural environment has consistently been used to create a back drop within the home, from the wallpaper designs of William Morris to the textiles of Josef Frank. Natural subjects continue to be re-interpreted in contemporary design, often in highly original and sometimes eccentric ways. This exhibition presents a history of interior design according to Timorous Beasties’ own particular world view and contains work ranging from examples of 18th century Toile, the experimental, William Morris inspired wallpaper projections of Christopher Pearson, and Swedish designers, Fronts’ Horse Lamp.
Exhibition dates:
Friday 27 April 2007 - Sunday 24 June 2007
10:30 am - 5:30 pm
Galleries 1 & 2
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