The Triple Folly presents the rich collaboration between artist
Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and textile makers
Kvadrat which produced an astonishing new pavilion for Kvadrat’s
Ebeltoft campus. The basis of the building is three found paper
objects – a legal pad, a paper plate, and a soda jerk hat –
which Demand brought to Caruso St John with the simple question:
‘Can you make this into architecture?’ In response, the
architects created a sculptural tripartite folly, a kind of
inhabitable still life poised on the area’s rolling seaside
hillocks, encompassing a meeting room, a kitchen, and a flexible
living space which holds a textile work by the artist Rosemarie
Trockel. Inspired by Kvadrat’s role as a celebrated textile
producer, Demand initially pursued the idea of the tent as an
archetypal architectural structure with many iterations across
contexts of leisure and shelter, simplicity and grandeur.
Translating these concepts into his own artistic idiom of paper, he
tasked Caruso St John with materialising this lightness of form,
with a touch of his distinctive, duplicitous whimsy. The final
building, completed in September 2022, achieves this through a
harmonious sequence of steel and fibreglass structures which create
their environments through the fall of light and shadow, textured
opacity and welcoming transparency. This publication presents
extensive images of the completed buildings alongside in-depth
illustrated conversations with Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown,
Adam Caruso, Valerie Verhack, Anders Byriel, Emilie Appercé, and
Thomas Demand.
General
Imprint: |
Mack Pub. Co
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
Thomas Demand
• Caruso St John
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ISBN-13: |
978-1-915743-08-4 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-915743-08-7 |
Barcode: |
9781915743084 |
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