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DAVID ADJAYE CHOOSES AMERICAN TULIPWOOD FOR GROUND BREAKING DESIGN
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American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC)
14/08/2008
 
This year’s world renowned London Design Festival sees leading architect David Adjaye working with The American Hardwood Export Council to create a dramatic pavilion of American tulipwood.

The Size + Matter project will be a focal point for the Festival demonstrating the flexibility of American tulipwood in a unique application and blurring the boundaries between architecture, design, engineering and sculpture.

David Adjaye selected American tulipwood for its inherent flexibility, strength, attractive grain and varying colour hues of pale yellow through to mid brown. Its working properties make tulipwood suitable for a wide range of applications, but it is not generally specified for external applications or such large scale projects. Leading wood preservation specialists Osmose has advised AHEC on treatments for the project and as the basis for further joint research projects on the wider use of tulipwood. Installers Hess Wohnwerk have faced a significant challenge in the size of the pavilion structure and the amount of wood involved.

The pavilion will be installed for one month in a prime site near the Canteen restaurant on London’s iconic Southbank. Its open design will invite visitors to experience the stunning effect of natural light and contrast in the curved interior.

Says David Venables: “This has been an extraordinary project for us. We were delighted when David Adjaye chose American tulipwood – a wood normally associated with more mundane applications. This project shows it literally in a new light and I believe the result will be spectacular”.

Size + Matter will remain in place until the Frieze Art Fair (16–19 October) and offered for sale at Phillips de Pury & Company’s London Contemporary Art Evening sale in October.
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