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Photo by Gareth Gardner
Photo by Gareth Gardner
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Adjoining Rooms 1989
Wood, glass, acrylic sheet, AC lacquer
Installation: 78 x 426 x 62 cm; three items: 78 x 142 x 62 cm (each)
Tate, London
Like the chair sculptures Conversation Seat (1986), Interlocking Chairs (1995) and Burnt Interlocking Chairs (1997), this work shows us how discrete components, in this case individual vitrines, combine into one work. It also expresses a Soanean mode of creating space: Soane did not create discrete rooms, but rather created a series of interlocking spaces, as in the Library-Dining Room and the Dome-Colonnade.
Photo by Gareth Gardner
Marseille, Cité Radieuse 2001
Wood, aluminium, glass, lacquer
102 x 200 x 10 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
This work depicts the Unite d’habitation, a modernist residential housing principle developed by the architect Le Corbusier. He built these throughout Europe, the most famous of which is in Marseille.
Photo: Prudence Cummings Associates
Council of Europe 1989
Wood, glass, paint, AC lacquer
60 x 60 x 15 cm
The artists
This work, which depicts the Council of Europe, is part of a larger series of works that explores the common European political and cultural heritage. Other sculptures include the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Security Council, and the European Parliament. It was made at the moment when the European Economic Community was turning into the European Union.
Photo by Gareth Gardner
Apple, Sunnyvale 2018
MDF, paper, card, paint, acrylic
91 x 91 x 7.5 cm
The artists
This work depicts the Apple campus in Sunnyvale, California, located in Silicon Valley.
Photo by Gareth Gardner
Apple, Cupertino 2018
MDF, paper, card, paint, acrylic
91 x 91 x 7.5 cm
The artists
This work depicts the corporate headquarters of Apple, also called Apple Park, which was completed by Norman Foster in 2017. Both Apple works show how tech companies are the new patrons of architecture.
Apple Oblique (green) 2015
Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 310 gsm
75 x 75 cm
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
This print depicts the Cupertino headquarters of Apple.
Nvidia, Santa Clara (orange) 2015
Archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 310 gsm
75 x 75 cm
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
This print depicts the corporate headquarters of Nvidia, a technology company that designs graphics processing units for the gaming and professional markets. Since 2014 they have also focused on artificial intelligence.
Photo by Gareth Gardner
Logo Works (x4) 1998–99
4 screen prints on Somerset Satin 300 gsm
70 x 70 cm (each)
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
These works depict banks and corporate headquarters towers, such as Deutsche Bank, BMW, IBM, Unilever. Each tower dominates the landscape in its city, playing a key role in each company’s public image strategy and functioning like a super logo that communicates a company’s identity.
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Photo by Gareth Gardner
Photo by Gareth Gardner
Model for Adjoining Rooms 1989
Wood, MDF, card, poly carbonate, paint, acrylic sheet
15 x 54 x 15 cm
Derwent London plc
Model for Interlocking Chairs 1994
MDF, card, paint, acrylic sheet
15 x 60 x 15 cm
Derwent London plc
Model for Burnt Interlocking Chairs 1997
MDF, card, paint, acrylic sheet
15 x 60 x 15 cm
Derwent London plc
These models show the working methods of Langlands & Bell: they produce their sculptures in the form of models, much as Soane produced models of his buildings.
Photo by Steve White
Façade Berlin 1999
Wood, glass, paint, lacquer
112 x 98 x 13 cm
Christina and Dimitri Goulandris Collection, London
This work depicts another of Le Corbusier’s Unite d’habitation buildings – this time the one in Berlin.
Frozen Sky (Night & Day) 2000
2 screen process prints on Somerset satin 300 gsm
70 x 66 cm (each)
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
Each print comprises a circle composed of airport codes.
Air Routes of Britain (Night & Day) 2000
2 screen prints on Somerset satin 300 gsm
70 x 55 cm (each)
The artists
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
This pair of prints visualises air routes to and throughout Britain.
Air Routes of Europe (Night & Day) 2002–20
Archival pigment print
100 x 100 cm (each)
The artists
This pair of prints visualises air routes to and throughout Europe. When seen together, Frozen Sky and the Air Routes prints represent the ways in which the technology of air travel collapses space and time and allow ideas to accelerate.
Photos by Gareth Gardner
Conversation Seat 1986*
Wood, glass, lacquer
70 x 110 x 50 cm
The artists
*Artists’ copy of the original which is in the collection of the Norwegian National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Photos by Gareth Gardner
Interlocking Chairs 1995
Wood, glass, lacquer
92 x 92 x 64 cm
Private collection, London