Provocations

Provocations

The Work of David Connor

By Drew Plunkett

£49.99

Publication Date: 12th October 2020

  • The first monograph on influential and award-winning designer David Connor
  • Highly illustrated and featuring previously unpublished photos and drawings

David Connor is a British interior and architectural designer, who in the early 1980s was one of a few pioneers who changed perceptions of what design could be. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Connor began his career as an interior designer before branching out into architecture. His clients  and collaborators include Vivienne Westwood, Anish Kapoor, Malcolm McLaren, Adam Ant, Janet Street Porter, Marco Pirroni and Leyton House, amongst others.

This book examines Connor's most significant projects, assessing his idiosyncratic working methods and identifying his influences a... Read More

Format: Hardcover
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  • The first monograph on influential and award-winning designer David Connor
  • Highly illustrated and featuring previously unpublished photos and drawings

David Connor is a British interior and architectural designer, who in the early 1980s was one of a few pioneers who changed perceptions of what design could be. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Connor began his career as an interior designer before branching out into architecture. His clients  and collaborators include Vivienne Westwood, Anish Kapoor, Malcolm McLaren, Adam Ant, Janet Street Porter, Marco Pirroni and Leyton House, amongst others.

This book examines Connor's most significant projects, assessing his idiosyncratic working methods and identifying his influences a... Read More
Description

David Connor is a British interior and architectural designer, who in the early 1980s was one of a few pioneers who changed perceptions of what design could be. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Connor began his career as an interior designer before branching out into architecture. His clients  and collaborators include Vivienne Westwood, Anish Kapoor, Malcolm McLaren, Adam Ant, Janet Street Porter, Marco Pirroni and Leyton House, amongst others.

This book examines Connor's most significant projects, assessing his idiosyncratic working methods and identifying his influences and professional liaisons with partners, collaborators and clients. With beautiful illustrations and photographs, it considers the impact of his interior-design education on his architectural projects and the link between his drawing techniques and the particularity of his finished work.

Details
  • Pages: 152
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Series: Designing Interiors
  • Publication Date: 12th October 2020
  • Trim Size: 19 x 25 cm
  • Illustration Note: Includes 80 colour illus
  • ISBN: 9781848223516
Author Bio

Drew Plunkett is a former academic who now writes across a spectrum of interior-design topics for an audience of interior-design practitioners and students. He has been familiar with and an admirer of Connor’s work since the early 1980s and considers him to be the most significant figure in changing perceptions of how interior-design practice could operate.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Ways and Means; 3. Early Years; 4. The Seminal Projects; 5. Architecture in California; 6. Building for a Void; 7 Atlantic Bar and Grill; 8. M Café (and other commercial and residential projects in Taiwan); 9. Vivienne Westwood's Shop in Mayfair, 1993; 10. Live TV; 11. Notting Hill Flat; 12. House for Anish Kapoor; 13. Hermit; 14. Croft Lodge Studio

David Connor is a British interior and architectural designer, who in the early 1980s was one of a few pioneers who changed perceptions of what design could be. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Connor began his career as an interior designer before branching out into architecture. His clients  and collaborators include Vivienne Westwood, Anish Kapoor, Malcolm McLaren, Adam Ant, Janet Street Porter, Marco Pirroni and Leyton House, amongst others.

This book examines Connor's most significant projects, assessing his idiosyncratic working methods and identifying his influences and professional liaisons with partners, collaborators and clients. With beautiful illustrations and photographs, it considers the impact of his interior-design education on his architectural projects and the link between his drawing techniques and the particularity of his finished work.

  • Pages: 152
  • Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
  • Series: Designing Interiors
  • Publication Date: 12th October 2020
  • Trim Size: 19 x 25 cm
  • Illustrations Note: Includes 80 colour illus
  • ISBN: 9781848223516

Drew Plunkett is a former academic who now writes across a spectrum of interior-design topics for an audience of interior-design practitioners and students. He has been familiar with and an admirer of Connor’s work since the early 1980s and considers him to be the most significant figure in changing perceptions of how interior-design practice could operate.

1. Introduction; 2. Ways and Means; 3. Early Years; 4. The Seminal Projects; 5. Architecture in California; 6. Building for a Void; 7 Atlantic Bar and Grill; 8. M Café (and other commercial and residential projects in Taiwan); 9. Vivienne Westwood's Shop in Mayfair, 1993; 10. Live TV; 11. Notting Hill Flat; 12. House for Anish Kapoor; 13. Hermit; 14. Croft Lodge Studio