This is How to Live
19 Sept – Sunday 14 October 2012
Studio Manifold were been invited by National Trust London to explore and respond to the homes of two very different, but equally significant characters in the history of architecture, art and design: William Morris, The Red House, Bexleyheath, and Ernő Goldfinger, 2 Willow Road, Hampstead.
Morris and Goldfinger both created homes for themselves that embody their distinct values, how they thought we should live. The Red House and 2 Willow Road speak of wider ideological and cultural movements through the intimacy of the home, and within the time capsule-like conservation environment.
This Is How To Live is our largest collaborative project to date, parallel exhibitions of brand new site-specific work, shown within the environments that inspired them. Our individual and collaborative, multi-disciplinary responses to these two people’s lives, their ideas and these buildings take in new design, sculpture, image and audio interventions.
A special NT London Late event took place at 2 Willow Road on Thursday 27 Sept for which we created bespoke cocktails, music, food artwork, screenings and activity in homage to the Goldfingers’ notorious soirees.
Artists: Amy Hughes, Bethan Lloyd Worthington, Ellie Doney, Hanne Enemark, Hanne Mannheimer, Katy Jennings, Malene Hartmann Rasmussen, Matthew Raw, Sun Ae Kim, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom.
