The modern Albemarle Street shop prominent for Paul Smith builds on the familiar material tradition in london. Cast iron forms an understated background on the city’s streets; its railings, gratings, balconies, and lamp posts. Paul’s brief was a good eclectic collection of suggestions, images, textures and traditions, encompassing military medals, woven hats and finely used gold ingots alongside sharpened tailoring, the soft fall of cloth, craftsmanship and delight in surprise. How these disparate influences might obtain the restraint needed to participate with the neighbourhood simultaneously as contributing to it is future identity was important, in doing so offering a rare resistance towards the increasingly homogenous global traditional.The ground floor rustication of Georgian townhouses and also the ornamental language of 18th century shop fronts was reinterpreted and abstracted in the sinuous pattern of interlocking circles cast into a new solid iron fa? ade. The repetition of that typical Regency shape introduced an optical complexity which usually, with the play of sunlight and shadow, turns the pattern in to a deep surface texture. Seen obliquely it appears woven, like a fine pads. The surface is further enlivened through the latent makers’ marks of the casting process and the natural patination in the cast iron. A more intimate discovery might be made in the trio with small drawings by Paul forged directly into panels scattered through the fa? Curved windows project through the darkly textured iron seeing that luminous vitrines, with a nod towards the curved glass of the particular nearby arcades. A secret door associated with stained oak lies flush with all the cast iron panels: the inverted carving on the timber recalls the mould and sand bed prepared for the molten metal. The cast iron panels curve in the recessed oak entrance door, a gently bowed iron step evokes worn absent treads. Over time, the iron threshold will certainly polish under foot, recording the life belonging to the building in its fabric.
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