The car photographed by a previous owner some time circa 2003
Part Exchange tells the life story of a scrapped car through a series of objects inspired by the people whose lives it touched over the course of 25 years. Drawing on conversations with its previous owners, the disassembled components of an Alfa Romeo Cloverleaf 145 have been reconfigured into domestic objects of furniture.
Installation views in the Design 1900 - Now galleries, Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington
Purchasing the car at the end of its usable life, then seeking out all of its previous owners in order to better understand what the car meant to the people who lived with it. Through a series of conversations and exchanges seen in the accompanying film, I imagined new ways that the life of the car could live beyond its time on the road. Moving between Richmond (Yorkshire), Manchester, Blackburn & Walsall before finally ending up in East Sussex, the stories gathered were used as a basis for designing new objects of furniture from the materials of the car that once was.
Exhibitited as part of London Design festival 2023
September 2023 - Janurary 2024
A container for flowers that holds a 10oz glass
A rail made of parts for Story MFG that can be assembled, taken apart & reconfigured again and again without using a single tool.
A series of oak beams, steel tubes and wooden dowels are connected by hand using balls on the end of threaded rod and vertical pins.
Inspired by a sense of play observed in the various architectural forms and design experiments at Grymsdyke farm, the Rolling Lamps embrace an iterative approach to their design.
A series of predefined components are created by rolling sheet steel at two different radiuses. These rolled sections are then assembled into forms that can hold and reflect lighting components in ever so slightly different ways. By playing with negative and positive space and designing the limps intuitively during the process of making them, the Rolling Lamps offer the opportunity to create an open ended series of unique forms, all within the same common language.
Powdercoated steel
Sizes variable
Made from 3 inch stainless steel tubes used in the production car exhausts. The Tubular chair is a result of conversations back and forth between car exhaust fabricators over a number of years.
In order to utilise their focused expertise, the chair works around a set of machining limitations defined by the production of car exhaust systems. It was designed to the technical constraints of mandrel bent tubular steel and intentionally bears the hallmarks of its making process.
The seat of the chair is made from recycled chip rubber often found in the automotive industry, which was cast around a metal plate and connected to the underside of the steel frame.
Mandrel bent stainless steel tubing, mild sheet, recycled crumb rubber
580 X 540 X 720mm