Here’s my pick of three things to do this week- including the images of Gio Ponti’s architecture magazine Domus, garden designer Dan Pearson and some vintage bargains!
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What: Giorgio Casali Photographer, Domus 1951-1983, Architecture, Design and Art in Italy
Where: Estorick Collection, Canonbury Square
When: Until September 8
For over thirty years, Giorgio Casali photographed the work of the greatest post-war Italian architects and designers for Gio Ponti’s famous magazine, the style bible Domus. Curated by Angelo Maggi and Italo Zannier, this exhibition presents a selection of Casali’s images belonging to the Archivio Progetti, housed at IUAV University in Venice. It includes a series of previously unseen vintage prints unconnected to the worlds of architecture and design, comprising professional prints as well as travel photographs and intimate, private studies of friends and family. Also on show are architectural achievements of once-celebrated but now lesser-known masters, as well as more familiar figures like Ponti, Pier Luigi Nervi and Le Corbusier.
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What: Green Fuse: The Work of Dan Pearson
Where: Garden Museum, London
When: Until October 20
This exhibition explores the work of landscape and garden designer Dan Pearson, whose body of work includes a woodland landscape for a space-age house in the forest outside Moscow with Zaha Hadid, the restoration of an Edwin Lutyens/Gertrude Jekyll estate in Devon, a city park in the heart of King’s Cross and a mountainside ecological park at the northernmost tip of Japan.
You can see a trailer for the exhibition here: http://vimeo.com/62439740
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What: The Vintage Kilo Sale
Where: Bethnal Green, London
When: August 17
The Vintage Kilo Sale returns to York Hall in Bethnal Green selling vintage fashion for guys and girls for £15 a kilo. It’s on from 11am to 4pm and is just £1 entry.
What are you doing this weekend?
