Pavillon de L’Espirit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home at the Swiss Institute, New York

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Founded by Ifeanyi Oganwu, Expand Design Ltd is a London-based studio engaging in architecture and furniture design by investigating the correlation between history, base materials and opportunities presented by state-of-the-art fabrication techniques. Through our projects, we unearth unidentified typologies that are inspired by the past, grounded in the present, and on a journey to a new aesthetic domain.

Exhibitions

BULGY Inverted, 2014

PDLEN, Installation View

BULGY Inverted is featured in the Swiss Institute’s Annual Architecture and Design Series: 2nd Edition.

The exhibition titled “PAVILLON DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU: A 21st Century Show Home,” is curated by Felix Burrichter and revisits Le Corbusier’s 1925 project to propose radical domestic environments for the 21st century.

The show takes a critical view on technology and domesticity assembling works by over 30 designers in a conceptual show home designed by Shawn Maximo where visitors are transported to virtual environments also by the architect.

PAVILLON DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU: A 21st Century Show Home
Curated by Felix Burrichter
September 25 – November 8, 2015
Exhibition essay by Carson Chan available via:
https://www.swissinstitute.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Exhibition-Essay-Carson-Chan.pdf

For additional details and installation views please visit:
https://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibition/swiss-institute-annual-architecture-and-design-series-second-edition-pavillon-de-lesprit-nouveau-a-21st-century-show-home-curated-by-felix-burrichter/

Photos by Daniel Pérez, courtesy Swiss Institute.

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