London’s Frieze Fair is an inspiration every year. This year we’ve constructed an imaginary YourStudio DREAM HOME using furniture-inspired art pieces from this year’s Frieze. Inspiring concepts, great colours, fantastic materials, adventurous forms and uniquely bizarre combinations, please step into our home…
Step 1. Buzz yourself up on the intercom
Margaret Lee, Cucumber (on the wall),2012 (above)
Archival pigment print
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Step 2. Hang up your coat
Rachel Harrison, Sculpture with Raincoat, 2012 (above)
Wood, styrofoam, cement, acrylic, hanger, The Economist, Gherardini rain coat
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Step 3. Check yourself out
Sam Durant, Go To Work, 2012Â (above)
Mirror, enamel spray
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Step 4. Make yourself comfortable
Martino Gamper, Chair (prototype), 2012Â Â (above)
Jonas Wood, Grey Shio Still Life, detail, 2012Â (above)
Oil & acrylic on canvas
Geoffrey Farmer, I Turn to Clocks (Thoughts on circular time and a sword truck), 2012 (above)
Plantpots and mixed media collage
Zhang Wang, Artificial Rock No. A39, 2007Â (above)
Stainless steel
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Step 5. Put your things on a shelf
Josephine Meckseper, Untitled (Only a Moster Can Allow Himself the Luxury of Seeing Things as They Are), 2005 (above)
Shelf with mixed media
Carol Bove, Aleph, 2012 (above)
Wood and steel shelves, books & periodicals, steel, brass, stone, feather, mink button and found objects
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Step 6. Put on a record
Yarisal & Kublits, Fertility Doll (records), 2012Â (above)
Brass, 3 vinyl records
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Step 7. Sit down and relax
Sarah Lucas, Mumum, 2012Â (above)
Tights, fluff, chair frame
Pierre Huyghe, Apparaissance, 2012 (above)
Wood, foam, fur
Xavier Antin, Galerie Crevecoeur, 2012 (above)
Reconstructed chairs
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Step 8. Select some nibbles from the Hostess Trolley
Jason Rhoades, Shelf (mutton chops) With Unpainted Donkey, 2003 (above)
Seville Ultra Durable chrome shelving system with 9 shelves, 13 neon panels (glass, plexi, wire, transformers), 31 ceramic donkey carts, 1 can tuna
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Step 9. Get ready for dinner
Henning Bohl, Untitled, 2011 (above)
Wood and mixed media
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Step 10. And pour yourself a drink…
Amalia Pica, Device for mutual eavesdropping #2, 2012 (above)
Wooden holder and drinking glasses
Amalia Pica, Catachresis #32 (Neck of the bottle, elbow of the pipe), 2012 (above)
Found materials
As well as charting our inspiration, the team at YourStudio also design interiors, furniture and products. If you have a project you’d like to talk to us about, feel free to contact us for a chat here.
See you next time….next stop…Paris Motor Show.