My talk on 430 King’s Road at the ICA’s interiors symposium is online now
Earlier this year I participated in a symposium on interior design and pop culture at London’s Institute Of Contemporary Arts.
The day of talks and discussion was organised by the designer Ben Kelly, who is professor of interiors across the colleges of the University Of The Arts London.
I chose as my subject the history of the address 430 King’s Road, which housed a series of important and interesting fashion boutiques over a two-decade span from the early 60s. Since the early 80s it has, of course, stayed in the form of Vivienne Westwood’s shop Worlds End; prior to that it was the Kelly-designed Seditionaries.
Other contributors included writers Michael Bracewell, Alice Rawsthorn and Peter York, artists Lucy Mackenzie, academics Fred Deakin and Andrew Wilson, curator Jana Scholz, author/musician/teacher David Toop, photographer Bridget Smith and designers Barber Osgeby, Peter Saville and Ben Kelly himself.
View my talk below or here.