Colour Study Tables

Available now at the Barbican gallery shop

bauhaus factory now open (colour study tables)

 this week, i've been mostly making my new 'Colour Study Tables' with the help of Gareth (below).

i have designed and made them to accompany the new Bauhaus exhibition at the Barbican - look out for them in the gallery shop when you visit the show

 the top surfaces are made in Shoreditch from scrap reclaimed wood salvaged around East London, the steel bases are made in Bethnal Green and when finished the tables are delivered by hand to the Barbican (shop local)

 below: the finished set

 they are available now to order from the Barbican gallery shop and can be collected from the shop or from my Shoreditch workshop

thank you to Rob at Wilco, Gareth Powell, Momoko, Jackson Lam at Hato Press and the Barbican for your help with this project.

find out more about the Bauhaus exhibition here

Bauhaus at the Barbican - Colour Study Tables by Rupert Blanchard

Last year i made a series of reclaimed wood & steel side tables/cabinets to accompany and inspired by the Gordon Matta-Clark exhibition at the Barbican. To follow on from this and to celebrate the new Bauhaus exhibition that opens soon, I have made a new set of 'Colour Study Tables' that will be available exclusively from the gallery shop for the duration of the show. more details and pictures coming soon...

New Arrival at The Barbican

 i've just delivered 4 new pieces to the Barbican - catch them while you can! (above: side tables / work in progress)

...an environmentally friendly delivery, walking from my warehouse to the Barbican with 4 new pieces on my scrap-yard find sack truck (click on pictures to enlarge).

New Arrival: Rupert Blanchard for The Barbican

Designed and produced by Rupert Blanchard exclusively for The Barbican.

Inspired by the new exhibition at The Barbican and the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, Blanchard’s trademark salvaged style is employed to produce a new side table.

Made from reclaimed interior doors found in Blanchard’s past and present homes of Swindon and Shoreditch, the doors range from late Victorian to the 1950s and are selected under the policy that only badly damaged doors and those beyond feasible repair were to be used for the project.

 

The doors were cut up into one foot square sections before being reassembled as one foot square cubes whilst paying homage to the original design, construction techniques and historical patina that has been preserved. The cubes sit on four legged steel bases produced by a family-run metal workshop in Bethnal Green.

Designed to be used as stand alone pieces, in pairs or as a modular section to create larger tables, every piece is unique, signed and numbered.

10 brand new pieces available now at The Barbican.