Concrete Stitches Collection by James Plumb
on 16/10/10
The Trend Boutique has been admirers of James Plumb for some time now & are extremely happy to feature their latest work. We love the way their bespoke furniture fits in perfectly with The Trend Boutique's Autumn Winter 2011-12 'Worn' & 'Function' trend themes, whilst also encouragingly takes on board the idea of re-working discarded objects.
Recently featured as part of the London Design Festival, this design studio created 'The One Room Hotel', a completely unique and intimate concept that played around with the idea of a normal hotel by creating the most beautiful hotel room slash installation. A select few were allowed to spend the night, so by day the space acted as an exhibition for the interior designer’s striking innovation and time-worn, lovingly restored pieces and by evening it became a very special invitation-only place to stay.
'From This Day Forward'; Part of the Concrete Stitches Collection by James Plumb
The design studio James Plumb consists of Hannah Plumb and James Russell, a couple in life and work and who met in 1998 at Wimbledon School of Art studying Fine Art Sculpture. Their combined name of James Plumb represents the single artistic voice that builds on their different but complementary approaches. The overlooked, discarded and time-worn have a new found confidence and identity under the hands of James Plumb, with their luminaires, assemblage, and interiors sitting between design and art. In combining, restoring, and finding new habitats for the unwanted they celebrate and reveal stories that might have gone untold, and in new function find new tales.
'Love Chair'; Part of the Concrete Stitches Collection by James Plumb
A truly unique collection of reworked furniture – mostly one-offs, but also multiples and limited editions. Their works include lighting, decorative objects, and sculptures that are more functional and less fictional than those found in the visual art world. All are distinguished by the love James Plumb have for even the smallest forgotten relic - they create on the border between storytelling and set design, psychoanalysis and philology of the object. Art and design for James Plumb is to keenly and critically re-use what is already present (in form, tools and materials) - to give new life, and sometimes new function, to objects.
'For Better For Worse'; part of the Concrete Stitches collection by James Plumb
The Trend Boutique like the way that by salvaging & re-working pieces their designs have both a fragility and robustness about them. As identified in the 'Worn' theme this is not about 'shabby chic' of the last decade this is about ultra-worn items that reveal a completely new beauty that is delicate, yet unassuming. Perfect for our austere times, but rather than being dull & depressing, each piece is exquisitely uplifting.
'Sampson' by James Plumb
