Silo, Jablite’s designers-in-residence, can be found strutting their stuff in various locations around the capital during the London Design Festival and beyond.
Until October 27 you can find them at the Marsden Woo Gallery in Clerkenwell, exhibiting their own unique take on expanded polystyrene - NSEPS (not so expanded polystyrene) - in a show entitled ‘Form Follows Function’ where a collection of their playful domestic objects are on display.
Silo’s work is also on show at Bloomberg’s head office in Finsbury Square, London. A commission by Arts Co invited Silo to create an installation for Bloomberg’s annual ‘Waste Not, Want It’.
Silo has stayed true to their creative style and once again examined a familiar material or product and made it new… this time they collected and took apart discarded coloured keyboards from Bloomberg.
Silo worked with a factory in Gloucestershire to heat-press the discarded keys to make coloured sheet plastic for table tops and stools. From these lowly beginnings, Silo has created a slightly surreal range of furniture that plays with notions of scale and order in the boardroom.
“The furniture is in a break out area where people can meet for a coffee or hold an informal meeting,” explains Attua Aparicio. “We are very pleased because our furniture is being used and is popular.
“People who work at Bloomberg can see the direct link between the keyboards they type on every day and the tables and chairs, the colours can be spotted in material and in some cases you can still read the words, like ‘help’.”
“Silo combines a unique, handcrafted approach to their work, with a fiercely practical examination of material technology,” comments Sue Ballard, Technical and Innovations Manager, Jablite.
“It is exciting and refreshing to see them work and to have them on site at Belvedere. We are very proud to have them as our designers-in-residence and it is great to see them winning this kind of recognition.”
