London Craft Week & Frieze Week 2020

The Design Edit, September 29, 2020

Meanwhile, Sarah Myerscough Gallery’s latest exhibition, The Natural Room, in her converted Old Boathouse, long rather than tall, with its sympathetic wooden ceiling and simple brick walls, offers an entire environment of furniture and objects made from a wide variety of organic materials. The show, running until 7th November, is a culmination of many explorations with her artists of the potential of crafted design to reconnect us with the natural world. Featuring makers from across the globe – including Fernando Laposse from Mexico, Max Frommeld from the USA and straw-artist Arko from Japan – The Natural Room is a vision of benign collaboration with nature. It provides an ideal space for cocooning, but also invites us to think about the world outside the home.

 

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