Now that we’re getting well into autumn and winter, sunny days in the park and slow dinners outside have now been replaced by cosy nights in with a hot chocolate and warm socks. But there’s still some exciting events happening this weekend, which are well worth getting out of bed for. Get your design fix at Midcentury’s show in Erno Goldfinger’s Haggerston school, be amazed by architectural photography at the Barbican and prepare to be wowed by an installation in Covent Garden.
STOP
What: Midcentury Show East
Where: Erno Goldfinger’s Haggerston School, London
When: Sunday 12 October, 10am-4pm
If you’re mad about design like me – think Eames, Jacobsen, Wegner, Nelson and The Days – then head along to the recently refurbished Erno Goldfinger-designed school in Haggerston, East London for your design fix this weekend. Here you’ll find some of the best midcentury dealers in furniture, ceramics, glass, wallpaper, posters and more, while the space alone is worth the trip.
LOOK
What: Constructing Worlds: photography and architecture in the modern age
Where: Barbican, London
When: Until January 11, 2015
The Barbican’s latest exhibition brings together eighteen photographers from the 1930s to the present day who have changed the way we view architecture and perceive the world around us. Featuring over 250 works, there are the first skyscrapers in New York, decaying colonial structures in the Congo and glamorous suburban homes of post-war California.
Image above: Nadav Kander–Chongqing IV (Sunday Picnic), Chongqing Municipality, 2006. © Nadav Kander, courtesy Flowers Gallery.
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What: Take my lightening, but don’t steal my thunder
Where: Covent Garden, London
When: Until October 24
If you go shopping in Covent Garden this weekend you may notice something just a little bit odd about the Market Building. Artist Alex Chinneck has magically levitated a 40-foot-long building in the air and sliced it in half with the help of some visual trickery and a lot of steel. Go see it for yourself and see if you can work out how it stays up.
What are you doing this weekend?
