Mantelpiece

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V&A South Kensington
Design 1900 to Now, Room 74

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Artist/Maker	Assemble (made) Granby Workshop (maker)
Place of origin	Liverpool (made)

This is one of a collection of objects in the V&As collection made by members of the Granby Workshop, a social enterprise created in Liverpool by the collective Assemble. In 2015, with the Granby Four Streets project, of which the Granby Workshop plays the most significant and highest profile constituent, Assemble won Britain’s most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize.

Object details

Categories	Interiors Furniture
Object type	Mantelpiece
Parts	This object consists of 4 parts. Mantlepieces Mantlepieces Mantlepieces Mantlepieces
Title	Mantelpiece (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	'Granby Rock' poured into moulds, then polished. Concrete Sand Aggregate Rubble Poured Moulded Polished
Brief description	Granby Workshop; Mantelpiece in 4 parts, 2015-2016
Physical description	Mantle piece in 4 parts; 2 legs, shelf and header, without ornamentation. Made of Granby Rock in pink and grey, backed with concrete.
Dimensions	Width: 900mm (Note: Manufacturers measurements for fully constructed mantelpiece) Height: 1000mm (Note: Manufacturers measurements for fully constructed mantelpiece) Depth: 225mm (Note: Manufacturers measurements for fully constructed mantelpiece)
Style	21st Century
Production type	small batch
Gallery label	(2021) Design to regenerate communities In 2015, residents from Granby, a neighbourhood in Liverpool, co-founded Granby Workshop with the London-based architecture collective Assemble. Producing ceramics, stoneware and textiles, it is a social enterprise supporting the community through making. Similarly, the Wealdstone Youth Workshop, set up in 2018 by regeneration agency Spacemakers, gave north-west London teenagers who had experienced cuts to youth services the opportunity to contribute to a new public square in their neighbourhood. With designers Silo Studio, they created a multifunctional leg for stools, chairs and benches, and sold them to fundraise for the project. Marbled-paper lampshade 2015–16 Designed and made by Assemble and Granby Workshop, UK Acrylic ink, paper and wire Museum no. CD.145:1, 2-2016 Pressed terracotta lampshade 2015–16 Designed and made by Assemble and Granby Workshop, UK Terracotta and iron oxide Museum no. CD.146-2016 Composite-rock mantelpiece 2015–16 Designed and made by Assemble and Granby Workshop with Will Shannon, UK Granby Rock (sand, brick, slate, stone, cement and aggregate) Museum no. CD.139:1 to 4-2016 Chair made using Wealdstone legs 2018 Designed by Esther Calinawan, Kayleigh Littlemore, Leo Harrison, Marina Marbella, Marius Dinu and Tanya Galia with the Wealdstone Youth Workshop and Silo Studio, UK Plywood, polypropylene, paper pulp Museum no. CD.7-2020 The object sits in the 'Crisis and Conflict' section of the Design 1900-Now gallery opened in June 2021.
Object history	This object is made from 'Granby Rock'. Granby Rock was designed in collaboration with Will Shannon. As the houses in the Granby Four Streets were refurbished, discarded material were picked from skips and given a new life cast into mantle pieces and other products for the home. Red, and yellow brick, slate and stone are cast with sand, pigmented cement and aggregate and then ground and polished, creating a highly decorative surface speckled with rubble. Information adapted from Granby Workshop, Catalogue 2015.
Summary	This is one of a collection of objects in the V&As collection made by members of the Granby Workshop, a social enterprise created in Liverpool by the collective Assemble. In 2015, with the Granby Four Streets project, of which the Granby Workshop plays the most significant and highest profile constituent, Assemble won Britain’s most prestigious art award, the Turner Prize.
Collection	Design, Architecture and Digital Department
Accession number	CD.139-2016

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Record created	April 4, 2016
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1348044/mantelpiece-mantelpiece-assemble/

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