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Date and location: until August 29, Harewood House, Leeds, West Yoorkshire
A sensibility for recycling objects makes its way at the second edition of the Harewood Biennial: Kioskö is the installation by Lonodon-based designer Michael Marriott giving a temporary new look to the historic library at Harewood House in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Recycled stereos, bottle crates, fridges, pendant lights made from upturned buckets give life to a “chiringuito bar”, Marriott’s interpretation of the Biennial’s theme: «I am drawn to these makeshift structures for their directness and honesty," the designer explained. "Each culture has its own version of the same idea».
With its exterior façade making a perfect example of neoclassical style and over 100 acres of gardens showing the design by visionary landscape gardener Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, Harewood House is also a treasure box of interior design, boasting designes by 18th century fashionable interior designer Robert Adam and Thomas Chippendale’ furniture.
To make a walk round the house even more pleasant are the numerous Renaissance masterpieces on the walls, accompanied by exquisite family portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Lawrence and Richmond. Among the highlighs, don’t miss the fine collection of Sèvres china! In this particular context, the 16 designers involved in the Biennial were called to make their “radical act with craft”.
