Annelies Legrand

Best Products, Various U.S. Cites, 1970-1984

The Peeling Project showroom was first of nine commercial buildings designed for the BEST Products Company of Richmond, Virginia – a retail merchandiser of hard goods in the USA. Portions of the brick veneer of the facade are peeled away precariously into space, revealing the beyond.  This sculptural innovation produces the effect of architecture in a state of tentativeness and instability.  By engaging a context of normalcy, this intervention becomes a combination of routine utility with visual ambiguity.  Since the project is not about formalist design, it explores the alternative relationships between art and buildings.

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