Contemporary craft by makers such as Studio Toogood, Max Lamb and Anthony Burrill have been woven into the grand interiors of Harewood House as part of its first craft and design biennial.
Titled Useful/Beautiful: Why Craft Matters, the exhibition explores the relevance of craft in today's digital age.
Opened on 23 March, it showcases work created by 26 makers based in the UK. The exhibitors range from small independent craftspeople working in solo practices, to companies that hand-make products on an industrial scale.
Graphic artist Anthony Burrill has erected a four-metre-high Tyvek-wrapped scaffold tower in front of Harewood House
It takes place at Harewood House, a country estate seven miles from Leeds city centre in Yorkshire that was built in the 1780s as a show home. Harewood brought together commissions from some of the finest craftspeople in the region at that time, including furniture designer Thomas Chippendale and interior designer Robert Adam. Today the house is run as an educational charitable trust.
Working with Jane Marriott, director of Harewood House Trust, design critic Hugo Macdonald was invited to curate an exhibition that could help the house to engage contemporary craftsmen in the way it did when it was first built.
"It's a very interesting proposition to show an exhibition in a house rather than a gallery," Macdonald told Dezeen. "I think you can have different types of conversations and I think people are willing to engage a lot more...