
Provocations
The Work of David Connor
Drew Plunkett(Author)
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published on 12. October 2020
Book
Hardback
152 pages
978-1-84822-351-6 (ISBN)
Description
David Connor is a British interior and architectural designer, who in the early 1980s was one of a few pioneers who changed perceptions of what design could be. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Connor began his career as an interior designer before branching out into architecture. His clients and collaborators include Vivienne Westwood, Anish Kapoor, Malcolm McLaren, Adam Ant, Janet Street Porter, Marco Pirroni and Leyton House, amongst others.
This book examines Connor's most significant projects, assessing his idiosyncratic working methods and identifying his influences and professional liaisons with partners, collaborators and clients. With beautiful illustrations and photographs, it considers the impact of his interior-design education on his architectural projects and the link between his drawing techniques and the particularity of his finished work.
This book examines Connor's most significant projects, assessing his idiosyncratic working methods and identifying his influences and professional liaisons with partners, collaborators and clients. With beautiful illustrations and photographs, it considers the impact of his interior-design education on his architectural projects and the link between his drawing techniques and the particularity of his finished work.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations; 80 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
816 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84822-351-6 (9781848223516)
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Person
Drew Plunkett is a former academic who now writes across a spectrum of interior-design topics for an audience of interior-design practitioners and students. He has been familiar with and an admirer of Connor's work since the early 1980s and considers him to be the most significant figure in changing perceptions of how interior-design practice could operate.
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Ways and Means; 3. Early Years; 4. The Seminal Projects; 5. Architecture in California; 6. Building for a Void; 7 Atlantic Bar and Grill; 8. M Cafe (and other commercial and residential projects in Taiwan); 9. Vivienne Westwood's Shop in Mayfair, 1993; 10. Live TV; 11. Notting Hill Flat; 12. House for Anish Kapoor; 13. Hermit; 14. Croft Lodge Studio