One Aldwych collaborates with Noel Stewart for London Fashion Week

Milliner Noel Stewart Transforms The Lobby Bar at
One Aldwych With His Spring/Summer 2013 Installation

London, 6th September 2012 – Leading London milliner Noel Stewart has collaborated with One Aldwych floral designer Mark Siredzuk to create a stunning installation in the hotel’s acclaimed Lobby Bar. During London Fashion Week, Stewart’s sensational Spring/Summer 2013 collection of hats will be suspended on two towering transparent plinths five metres above Lobby Bar guests as part of the hotel’s renowned floral display. Complementing this will be a pair of statuesque vases on either side of the Lobby Bar’s glass bar which also display Stewart’s new collection.

Twenty five of Stewart’s stylish hats will be featured with a combination of bamboo and lush foliage which the milliner describes as an “undulating stream of hats moving through the space above our heads”. The effect on guests is two-fold – once the initial impressive impact is felt, they begin to explore the texture and details of the individual hats. The Noel Stewart Spring/Summer 2013 collection is influenced by the work of designer Tony Duquette, a trip to the temples and palaces of Kyoto and contemporary weaving techniques and uses gold foiled straw, PVC tortoiseshell, leopard printed crinoline and matte pink rubber.

Commenting on this unique collaboration between milliner and floral designer, Stewart said “One Aldwych is the perfect place to debut my Spring/Summer 2013 Collection as the combination of clean contemporary styling with the impeccable quality that One Aldwych is known for resonates well with my label.”

Stewart and Siredzuk have created a special one-off hat which will adorn André Wallace’s sculpture The Boatman in the Lobby Bar throughout London Fashion Week. Fittingly, it’s a boater hat spanning one metre in diameter, made from luxuriant green moss, purple violets, a rose-coloured hydrangea and a vibrant holographic band.

The atmosphere of the Lobby Bar is contemporary but timeless – perfect for award-winning head bartender Pedro Paulo’s new Fashion 75 Champagne cocktail, a reimagining of the classic French 75. This citrusy tribute to the Lobby Bar’s sensational hat installation uses Noel Stewart’s favourite flavour, lime, and preferred drink, Champagne, along with hibiscus syrup and London dry gin.

Christmas Clouds for Colette by PERNILLA & ASIF

colette this Christmas has commissioned Pernilla & Asif to create a unique miniature version of their Cloud installation previously exhibited at Design Miami / Basel, for the Designers of the Future 2011 Award and later on a giant scale at the boxing venue, York Hall in east London in November 2011.

During the darkest three weeks of the year, every minute one hundred baby clouds will be released within two specially designed vitrines, each combining a cocktail of water, soap and helium gas.

Like colette, always going against the grain and the expected, the flurry of micro-clouds will be like an upside-down snowfall.

'I first discovered the work of Pernilla & Asif with the so poetic Harvest chair, then I saw the foam clouds they did for DesignMiami, and the very recent sand/ice installation in Singapore. I'm so proud they agreed to do our Christmas Windows with their magical clouds. It will certainly remain one of the most impressive windows in our history and we hope Colette will not fly in the air like a balloon with all the helium we'll keep!' - Sarah (Colette)

The special window installation at colette runs from Dec 12-31, 2011. Download a video of the installation here - http://wtrns.fr/ioZZjCOqp590Tn

PERNILLA & ASIF are currently working on a pavilion commissioned by Coca Cola for the Olympics in London 2012

Calvin Klein Collection - Madison Avenue Hol11 Windows - Nathaniel Rackowe

CALVIN KLEIN COLLECTION
UNVEILS 2011 HOLIDAY WINDOWS & INSTALLATION
Unique Work of Artist Nathaniel Rackowe Featured In-store





 
The Calvin Klein Collection store on Madison Avenue has unveiled a unique artistic installation as the centerpiece of the store’s annual holiday display which explores substance, form and light.




 

The one-of-a-kind installation was conceived by British artist Nathaniel Rackowe. Mr. Rackowe, who was introduced to the company by Dale Rozmiarek, Senior Vice President, Creative Services, Calvin Klein, Inc., is known for his large scale sculptural works, combining light with urban and industrial materials, designed to interact with their surrounding architectural environment. Drawing from Minimalism’s attention to the relationship between viewer, object, and space, and fusing the structural codes and material outcomes of Modernism, Mr. Rackowe’s works often transform viewers into active participants.




  
This latest work, entitled “Black Beacon,” stretches 60 feet in length and weighs one metric ton (1000kg), making it the largest sculpture Mr. Rackowe has undertaken. The sculpture – which took months to fabricate in his London studio before shipping it to New York City to reassemble -- consists of a massive steel frame suspended from only three points in the ceiling above the store’s pristine main floor. Honeycomb card panels, painted with viscose black bitumen on the outside and lime green on the inside, are attached along the external sides. Each of the panels are tilted open at different angles to reveal a single powerful arc of light traveling back and forth, across the entire length of the considerable structure. As the beam passes through the openings between the linear rail of panels, streams of light spill out and spread across the walls of the space.




  
“Black Beacon is my largest and most ambitious artwork to date,” said Mr. Rackowe. “Drawing from the cities and urban environments that I move through each day, I created this immersive work as a reflection of those experiences and a study in finding transcendental beauty in the most unforgiving of surroundings.”




  
The impressive steel sculpture and windows will remain on view through January 3, 2012 at the Calvin Klein Collection flagship store located at 654 Madison Avenue in New York City.




  
Inspired by urban environments, Mr. Rackowe’s aim is to capture and distill some of the unexpected beauty that he finds in the hard landscape of the city. Hung at a slight angle, an amazing view of “Black Beacon” is afforded from outside the space on Madison Avenue. From this vantage, it is possible to look inside the full length of the sculpture and see the light bulb as it slowly tracks towards the viewer.