The pleasure garden Sensorium at Clerkenwell Design Week

Published on : Wednesday, May 18, 2016

clerkenwell-design-week-logo-151123From the sedate to the salacious, Clerkenwell’s historic pleasure gardens are being brought sensationally back to life for Clerkenwell Design Week by international design practice HASSELL and Scandinavian seating designer HÅG.

 
The pleasure garden, ‘Sensorium’, will explore how we view and experience the world around us, whether through everyday technology, or through our physical presence in a space. HASSELL and HÅG will play with smells, textures and sound, leading visitors to question how the senses influence their experience.

 
At the heart of the Sensorium will sit a mysterious black space which offers guests unexpected – even voyeuristic – perspectives of the surrounding pleasure garden. Perceptions are altered and manipulated through a series of ‘peep holes’ and senses are heightened or removed to provoke visitors to question what makes their viewpoint unique.
The Sensorium is about dichotomy and contrast. From the isolating black box to the explosive and vibrant pleasure garden, it blurs the boundaries between historic and the contemporary, the staged and the natural, the virtual and the physical. It’s a journey through smoke and mirrors, the absurd and the real.

 
The creative collaboration between the architects, interior designers and urban designers at HASSELL and the internationally acclaimed furniture designers of HÅG, has gone beyond looking at purely the built environment to create spaces – public or private – that entice and delight, challenge and intrigue. It takes a new perspective on how people shape design and how design responds to people.

 

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