BAC Bedrooms
High Tidings
From the arsenic stained cliffs of West Cornwall to the fishing ports of Newlyn, Cornwall has a landscape scarred and moulded by its industry. These patterns of rust and labour have a unique atmosphere that Mydd Pharo and I were evoking in our bedroom design for BAC. This combined with the breathtaking peace and meditative space that are provided by the Cornish skies and landscapes.
Taking inspiration from the water that flooded through the BAC following their fire some years back, the rooms have a beautiful rusting quality - the colours of the gorse, the mines and the seas... a vision of Cornwall that is separate from the picture postcards and the world of holiday makers, but exists alongside - both invisible and everywhere.
These bedrooms were commissioned by BAC for visiting artists to stay in residence in the Battersea venue. They have remained in use for the past five years and continue to be used today, having created a haven for hundreds of artists, creating and performing their work.