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Design
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Design
- Place of origin:
New York (made)
- Date:
1978 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Wines, James (designer)
SITE (designers) - Materials and Techniques:
Pen and ink
- Museum number:
E.1452-2010
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case MD, shelf 48
Founded in 1970 in New York City by James Wines, SITE (Sculpture in the Environment) is an experimental, multi-disciplinary architecture and environmental art studio. It developed a hybrid architectural practice where environmental art was integrated into the built space and fabric of a building.
SITE's most productive collaboration of the 1970s was with BEST Products Inc., one of the largest mail order corporations in the USA. BEST commissioned SITE to create a series of retail outlets for them across the US, all of them in peripheral strip locations near major cities. The 'Forest' showroom was created for a site in Richmond, Virginia in 1980. In order to maintain and celebrate its densely wooded surroundings, the showroom is split with a 35 foot gap, separating the facade from the actual store, through which the vegetation has been allowed to penetrate.
