Leather exhibition to challenge concepts of design
20/02/2013
“It'll explode a lot of ideas about leather - what it is, how you can use it and why it's so valuable," he said.
Exhibits will include a bike with customised leather pan saddle, handle bars and mud flaps, a wall-mounted shelf table, panelled doors, a desk and leather maps. The “design stories”will be told through materials, sketches, tools and objects.
This exhibition will also look at the importance of leatherwork as a craft and how vital it is in the development of a design.
Mr Amberg grew up in Northampton, the home of the British shoe and leather industry. His mother, an architect, would buy scraps of leather from the market for her son to transform into his earliest creations. In Australia, in the early 80s, Amberg met his mentor and leather worker, Gay Wilson.
Mr Amberg has worked with many great designers and architects, including Paul Smith, Donna Karan, Romeo Gigli and Sir Norman Foster. In 1986 he created his first leather floor for an architectural practice and has since completed a variety of exceptional commissions, from leather panelling in the Maltese Falcon superyacht to the leather-lined bar in Claridge's.
The exhibition will be held at Great Western Studios, London, from February 22 to March 6.
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