‘Another curious spectator contemplating the scene’ is a fragment
from a glam rock British era poster. It could also be the description of the
British Design exhibition visitor. Playing a modern Masquerade, he is seeking
for the hidden post-war art treasure where the game becomes almost like a
Hitchcockian vertigo.
Set up as a 3D live collage, where the arrows showing the
right way to go, play the role of the glue that sticks together over 300
objects, Innovation in the Modern Age is an exhibition where you could easily taste
the story of the British design from 1948 until today. Among pieces of
furniture like the Mambo chair or Peter Murdoch’s paper furniture, ceramic,
fashion designs by Mary Quant, Vivienne Westwood or Alexander McQueen, magazines
like i-D or The Face, on musical backgrounds by Pet Shop Boys, with film screenings, the exhibition develops from the reconstruction
of the late 40s to the revolution of the swinging 60s and punk 70s until the
innovative contemporary British style today.
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| Paper chair |
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| Alexander McQueen - AW2009 |
If the first part of the exhibition evokes a time where you
could almost hear the television programmes on a CS17 wooden TV box, the second
part walks you through changes in fashion, music, shopping, interiors and film,
heading to a ‘Cool Britannia’ of the 1990s when artists and designers pioneered
a fresh concept that marked the cultural landscape forever.
Unique for its quirky style, British sense of culture is
recognizable for its way of understanding and puzzling together the bazaar.
British Design brings in the same place an indoor market for vintage lovers and
new designs visionaries.
at V&A until 12 August 2012
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