Wallpaper* Handmade 2011: The Products

Street barbershop by Studio Mumbai Architects and Michael Anastassiades

This installation combines its creators' fascination with traditional crafts and materials, Wallpaper's commitment to grooming perfection, and a dash of Italian style. Regular collaborators, Studio Mumbai Architects and designer Michael Anastassiades share a passion for 'the informal architecture of India'. This and their constant search to define 'what we understand as design' has led them to collect a growing archive of 'fragments of cities' -- a large variety of found objects amassed during research trips around the Indian subcontinent. Based on an impromptu street barbershop in Jaipur, their installation consists of a 1:1 scale model reinterpretation of the scene, transferred to a Milanese context. Made out of cement boards and shipped from Mumbai, where it was created in Studio Mumbai's workshop, the barbershop comprises elements modelled from the team's collected finds

www.studiomumbai.com
www.michaelanastassiades.com
www.4thfloor.co.uk

Photography: Andrea Garuti