I am sure we are all familiar with this image - appearing as it does in the Old Testament, (The Book of the Skyscraper, Chapter 2 Verse15 to be precise)

For those yet to partake of the delerium, it was taken in 1931 at the Beaux-Art Costume Ball and features a bunch of New York’s architects of the time dressed as zoning a setback controls with skyscrapers for hats. That’s William van Allen in the centre outshing the rest with his spectacular deco leather and timber veneer smock.

In a similar, albeit slightly slicker, slightyl corporate, vein the IIDAM in Boston holds a yearly fashion where interior design firms partner up with suppliers and dress up as furniture.

This year, first prize went to the Gensler/Knoll team for a wonderful rendition of Saarinen Tulip chairs, table and Corb Vase:

Kneeling, the chairs skirts became saarinen bases and perched around the table they made quite the setting.

Second prize went to the Eames Eiefel chair rendered in plastic coat hangers:

It goes without saying that interior designers and furniture reps are always going to be better costume makers than architects - their tools are often softer and stretchier than ours. While some have mastered the art of the pliable, the supple and the parametric-non-uniform-splineal-splendour, our craft is generally one of hard edges. Thus, when clothing is attempted there is always an element of improbability and the ridiculous attached.

Which of course leads to CARPARCH - DARCH’s Dress Ups Christmas Party. It will be in the carpark of Tusculum, the venue for our first slidenight, on Friday 2nd December.

The Dress code is White Paper so get stapling, folding, ripping, creasing, taping, holepunching, scissoring, scrunching today, because it is only three weeks away…

All drinks and food are covered in the ticket and there will be prizes for best dressed etc.
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