Peter Saville - The Apartment

Influential designers from a variety of disciplines came together to share their thoughts in Ben Kelly’s 2015 symposium: Interior Design, Dead or Alive. This is Peter Saville’s recording.
Art Director and Graphic Designer Peter Saville will talk about the Mayfair apartment he occupied during the 90’s as his home and studio. The immaculately preserved 1970’s apartment featured smoked glass, tinted mirrors, velvet clad walls and an original Verner Panton floor to ceiling shell light fitting. The Apartment was transformed by Ben Kelly and Saville adding colour, texture, a glitter painting and a soft sculpture telephone number in pink satin. The Apartment became Peter’s salon where he held court with visitors including pop stars, models, journalists and artists. Album covers, advertising campaigns, texts and art works were conceived in this extreme hybrid space. Peter will talk about the environment, his time there and its context within popular culture and the interior.
Find out more about the Dead or Alive Interior Design symposium here: www.arts.ac.uk/...