The Triple Folly
In collaboration with Thomas Demand Ebeltoft, Denmark 2017–2022
Client: Kvadrat
This project, for a conference pavilion set in the coastal dunes surrounding the textile company Kvadrat’s headquarters in Ebeltoft, on the east coast of Denmark, is a design collaboration with the artist Thomas Demand.
Model
Drawings
Thomas Demand
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Published by Mack Books, The Triple Folly presents an account of the collaboration between Thomas Demand, Caruso St John, and textile manufacturers Kvadrat, which led to the construction of the new pavilion at Kvadrat's headquarters in Ebeltoft, Denmark.
Matthew Blunderfield interviewed Thomas Demand in his Berlin Studio for Scaffold Podcast. Alongside discussing his practice in reference to trauma, fiction and chance, they explore his relationship with architecture. When talking about his collaborations with Caruso St John on Nagelhaus and The Triple Folly, Demand explains his position as both close to and separate from the role of architects.
The pavilion at Kvadrat Headquarters is complete. The building, set in the coastal dunes surrounding the textile company’s headquarters in Ebeltoft, on the east coast of Denmark, is a design collaboration with the artist Thomas Demand.
Construction work continues on the Kvadrat Pavilion in Ebeltoft. The hospitality and conference space is a collaboration with artist Thomas Demand, located in the coastal dunes surrounding Kvadrat's headquarters.
M Leuven presents a major retrospective of the work of the artist Thomas Demand, featuring two works made by the artist in collaboration with Caruso St John: The unrealised Nagelhaus and the soon to be built pavilion at the headquarters of fabric manufacturers Kvadrat in Ebeltoft, Denmark.
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Location
Ebeltoft, Denmark
Date
2017–2022
Client
Kvadrat
Gross internal area
250 m²
Collaborating artist
Thomas Demand
Caruso St John Architects
Adam Caruso, Peter St John
Project architect
Will Pirkis
Structural engineer
Arup
Services engineer
Arup
Project manager, construction manager
Link, Lüchinger Meyer Hermansen
Façade engineering
Arup
Lighting design
Arup
Landscape architect
Vogt Landscape Architects AG
Photographer
Nic Tenwiggenhorn
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