Workplace Co-operative 115

Raw Craft

115studio3 — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:39:17 +0000

Simon Jones’s trestles and stacking chairs feature in a travelling Crafts Council exhibition, titled Raw Craft. Works by seven designers are assembled to illustrate an intelligent and economical approach to design and making. A short film showing Simon at work in the 115 workshop and yard can be seen here. Further information from the exhibition website is here.

Hollis Exhibition

115studio3 — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:45:18 +0000

Simon Jones (and his collaborator Jack) recently designed and built the Richard Hollis exhibition curated by Emily King at Gallery Libby Sellers. Richard is a good friend of 115 and a brilliant and prolific designer. The comprehensive exhibition featured around 300 different pieces of work arranged on long angled plywood display tables against a background of greyboard trays and sheets.

Location films

115Hyphen — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:50:03 +0000

Earlier this month we gathered to show and discuss extracts from films that put an emphasis on ‘location’. The films chosen seemed to divide into downbeat and depressed (mainly London), and upbeat and exotic (Los Angeles, Shetland, Bruges, Paris – but not Alphaville). Here they are:

Robert B chose: In Bruges, 2008, director Martin McDonagh
Peter chose The girl chewing gum, 1976, director John Smith
Dan chose Into the west, 1993, director Mike Newell
Dan also chose Zazie dans le métro, 1960, director Louis Malle
Robin chose Alphaville, 1965, director Jean-Luc Godard
John chose To live and to die in L.A., 1985, director William Friedkin
Robert B also chose (for the children in the audience) Thunderbirds, 2004, director Jonathan Frakes
Jonathan chose 77 beds, 2003, director Alnoor Dewshi
Aileen chose Withnail and I, 1987, director Bruce Robinson
Lucy chose The edge of the world, 1937, director Michael Powell

115 Whole Film Club launch

studio7115 — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:50:27 +0000

As well as continuing to hold evenings where we share scenes from our favourite ﬁlms (next up, ‘locations’), we recently gathered for a new initiative: the 115 Whole Film Club. The inaugural event combined a screening of The Ladykillers (1955) to an audience of 12, with refreshments that Mrs Wilberforce — played by Katie Johnson — might have served in her front parlour: beer, tea, cake and sandwiches.

Aeroplane & violin

studio7115 — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:38:45 +0000

Another open view evening. Four co-op members – Vanora Bennett, Dan Monck, Robin Kinross and Aileen Harvey – put on a diverse display: several steps to making a violin; two balsa-wood model aeroplanes and mobile phone videos from aeroplane models in flight by ex-115 member Maarten de Reus; 83 tear-off calendar cartoons by the Dutch cartoonist Peter van Straaten with translated captions; a found Greek alphabet made up of stones and four photographs taken at midnight of four locations in the Western Isles of Scotland. Guests and co-op members enjoyed food, mulled wine and a small bonfire in the front courtyard.

Fitzrovia Walk

115studio3 — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:14:33 +0000

Our annual walk around a particular ‘quarter’ of London took place on 21 October. This time we went to Fitzrovia, which ‘runs north of Oxford Street – and who can blame it?’ (Len Deighton). As always, the occasion was convened by Robert Bradbrook, who plotted our itinerary. We stopped at some renowned spots – the Post Office Tower, the Middlesex Hospital (now demolished), and Newman Passage – as well as places with more personal memories (the site of the old Schmidt’s restaurant in Charlotte Street and the now defunct Agra restaurant in Whitfield Street). We ran out of time for the western leg of the journey, and ended the evening with a meal in the Spaghetti House on Goodge Street – opened in 1955 and still in the ownership of the families who set it up.

Simon Jones

115studio3 — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:52:46 +0000

Simon Jones (furniture designer, maker, and architect) is joining Workplace Co-op 115, designing furniture for an enterprise on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, Canada.

New member

115studio3 — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:49:25 +0000

We are looking for another member to join us. We have a vacancy for a workshop user who also wants some office space. Interested designers and / or makers are invited to get in touch info@115.org.uk

Food films

115studio3 — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:00:45 +0000

We recently gathered to share scenes from our favourite films, as we do every so often. The theme this time was ‘food’ – a favourite subject of the co-op. We have compiled a list of our choices:

Dan chose: Soylent Green, 1973, director Richard Fleischer
Vanora chose: Babette’s feast, 1987, director Gabriel Axel
Robert B chose: Little Miss Sunshine, 2006, directors Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Lucy chose: Life is sweet, 1990, director Mike Leigh
Jonathan chose: Theatre of blood, 1973, director Douglas Hickox
Chris chose: A book of hours, 2001, director Chris Saunders
Aileen chose: Eat, drink, man, woman, 1994, director Ang Lee
Rod & Peter chose: Five easy pieces, 1970, director Bob Rafelson
Peter chose: My dinner with André, 1981, director Louis Malle
Lina chose: The rocky horror picture show, 1975, director Jim Sharman
Robin chose: The Punch and Judy man, 1963, director Jeremy Summers
Robert B chose: Hot shots!, 1981, director Jim Abrahams
John chose: Tampopo, 1985, director Jûzô Itami
Louis chose: The scarecrow, 1920, directors Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
James chose: The cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover, 1989, director Peter Greenaway

Romance

115studio3 — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:25:55 +0000

We recently gathered to share scenes from our favourite films, as we do every so often. The theme this time was ‘romance’. Slightly late for Valentine’s day, we have compiled a list of our choices:

Rod chose: Harold & Maude, 1971, USA, dir: Hal Ashby
Robin chose: La boulangère de Monceau, 1963, France, dir: Éric Rohmer
Mike chose: The Long Goodbye, 1973, USA, dir: Robert Altman
James chose: Together, 2000, Sweden, dir: Lukas Moodysson
Duncan chose: Don’t Look Now, 1973, UK/Italy, dir: Nicolas Roeg
Jonathan chose: The Trouble with Love and Sex (a short animation he’d been working on for Relate, 2010, UK)
Dan chose: Team America: World Police, 2004, USA/Germany, dir: Trey Parker
Peter chose: The Passenger, 1975, Italy/Spain/France, dir: Michelangelo Antonioni
Ollie chose three shorts: Meat Love, 1989, UK/USA/West Germany; Darkness/Light/Darkness, 1989, Czechoslovakia; Dimensions of Dialogue, 1982, Czechoslovakia. All dir: Jan Svankmajer
Becky chose: The Graduate, 1967, USA. dir: Mike Nichols
Robert Bradbrook chose: Up, 2009, USA, dirs: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Lisa chose: Le goût des autres, 2000, France, dir: Agnès Jaoui
Dan & Peter chose: Brief Encounter, 1945, UK, dir: David Lean
Cleo chose: Gregory’s Girl, 1981, UK, dir: Bill Forsyth
Vanora chose: Dr Zhivago, 1965, USA/Italy, dir: David Lean
Mike chose (a colour tinted version of): The Big Sleep,1946. USA, dir: Howard Hawks