25/04/14
Diverse Maniere: Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess
Sir John Soane’s Museum
7 March – 31 May 2014
Sir John Soane’s Museum was conceived as a place of
inspiration, learning and provocation for “amateurs and students” working
within the field of architecture. The current exhibition, Diverse Maniere:
Piranesi, Fantasy and Excess, more than responds to this remit. Curator Jerzy Kierkuć-Bieliński speaks to
Studio International about some of his favourite pieces on display, including a
coffee pot shaped like a shell, standing on a tortoise; a decadent golden chair
with swans’ neck arm rests; and a tripod with a helix spiral seeming to foresee
the discovery of DNA. The items, never realised during Piranese’s lifetime,
have been scanned from his often minute designs and 3D printed by a Madrid
based company called Factum Arte, who have then carefully hand-finished the
pieces in the materials Piranese would have intended.
To see this interview, please go to: http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/diverse-maniere-piranesi-fantasy-and-excess-sir-john-soanes-museum