Ilse Crawford, Gitta Gschwendtner and Roksanda Ilin?i? are among six female designers that have created artworks for an exhibition at 2 Willow Road, the London house that belonged to architect Ernö Goldfinger.
Objects designed by Lyn Harris, Nina Chakrabarti and Kitty Travers, as well as Crawford, Gschwendtner and Ilin?i?, are on display at 2 Willow Road in Hampstead until 4 November for the exhibition Ahead of the Curve.
These new artworks were created in response to works by six female artists in the collection of Hungarian-born Goldfinger and his wife Ursula, who designed and built the property in the 1930s, and lived in it until 1987.
They include a felt lamp, an ice-cream cake, an extremely long glove, a fringed dress, a record cover and a smokey scent. Frith Kerr curated Ahead of the Curve. It features some of her own artworks, including Long Hand, a response to the Rita Kernn-Larsen painting Sycamore Leaf
Built as one of three terraced houses, 2 Willow Road was the first modern property acquired by the National Trust, who opened it to the public in 1996. The interior is filled with modern art ? particularly surrealist works ? collected over the years by the Goldfingers, as well as bespoke furniture designed by Ernö.
For Ahead of the Curve, curator Frith Kerr has arranged the new objects in dialogue with their corresponding artworks and alongside a short written statement. These captions are presented as printed invitation cards placed nearby, so that it...