Beauty in the Broken
Window Installation - London Festival of Architecture 2023 in collaboration with Ideal Standard.
In ‘Beauty in the Broken’, discarded ceramic pieces from the Ideal Standard factory hang weightlessly in the window, revealing the magic of the making process, and celebrate the beauty in imperfection.
When conceptualising the installation Isabella saw waste not as something that must be discarded or thrown away but something that could be utilised – turning ‘trash into treasure’. Isabella collected the by-product ceramics from the Ideal Standard factory in the north of England. The fragments of the ceramics are glazed, unglazed and some even unfired, test pieces and old parts are utilised too.
The broken fragments work in dialogue with the finished ceramics in the showroom. This allows visitors to Ideal Standard, as well as passers-by who catch a glimpse inside the showroom, the beauty in the making process.
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