At the Aram Gallery in London, the exhibition “Joints + Bones” looks at how methods of joining can go beyond an essential role and give a piece of design its logic, originality and character. It investigates the structure and connections of design, as opposed to surfaces or skins.
Joints+Bones
The Aram Gallery in London explores new methods of joining and combining materials, showcasing works from established and emergent designers.
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- 09 December 2016
- London
An international mix of emerging and established designers have found innovative and experimental ways of joining elements to make furniture and structures with varying scale and scope. Some pieces make the mechanics of their joinery explicit, showing how construction can lead to overall form or rationale. Tension, pivots and bespoke 3D-printed parts are some common means with wide possibilities.
Other projects investigate new methods of combining materials: a stretch of fabric, a hose clip, or shrunken plastic bottles as a rudimentary graft. Exhibits vary from decorative screws and cable ties, to modular structures that can repeat to fill whole rooms. Alongside these works, is a set of complementary exhibits that are inspired by bones and anatomy in more abstract ways. Translucent textile hangings that remind of X-rays, crockery in bone china, elastic ligaments that hold lids to their containers, and skeletal structures grown by fusing powder around hot wires.
until 28 January 2016
Joints+Bones
The Aram Gallery
Dury Lane 110, London