Thursday, December 1st, 2011 marks the opening of the fifth and final installation of BOFFO Building Fashion with the two week retail installation by Ohne Titel & EASTON+COMBS. The space at 57 Walker Street will contain an immersive display-scape for the Ohne Titel collection that explores textile traditions as a common thread for architecture and fashion design. The designed environment alternates between its role as a spectacular backdrop for display and a visually porous weave suggesting a layering of inside and outside. Folding and interlocking aluminum components are tethered and woven together to form a composite structural surface that creates a play of scale and materiality through pattern, structure, geometry and form.
The Ohne Titel pop-up location will be selling the brand’s first Resort collection. Customers will be able to choose from a wider selection of the resort pieces than anywhere else in the city. Specialty pieces from past collections will also be available for purchase.
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Ohne Titel is a women’s collection designed by Alexa Adams and Flora Gill. The designers met in 1999 while attending the Parson’s School of Design. After graduating they separately went on to work for established labels such as Helmut Lang and Vivienne Tam. In 2005, the two reunited to work for Karl Lagerfeld. In September 2006, Alexa and Flora founded the Ohne Titel brand. The brand pairs architectural shape, soft draping and specialty knits with a keen attention to detail in fit and finish. In just five years Ohne Titel have held such honors as the 2009 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award, a top 10 finisher for the 2009 CFDA/ Vogue Fashion Fund Award, a 2009 Swiss Textiles Award nominee. They were recently in the top 10 for the 2011 Vogue/CFDA Fashion fund.
EASTON+COMBS is an award winning, internationally recognized architectural office that operates as a laboratory for innovative building strategies at the intersection of material practice, digital methodology and applied architectural research.
EASTON+COMBS approaches the production of architecture as a context for the exploration of environments and the development of new spatial typologies towards critical models of social and cultural production at the scale of architecture and urbanism.
EASTON+COMBS have recently advanced a body of research that explores architectural structural membranes at the scale of public space interventions. They have most recently completed a solo installation at the Extension Gallery for Architecture in Chicago. Titled, CHANGING ROOM, the installation is a full scale experimental environment exploring the boundaries of the intimate in the realm of the public. Lonn Combs and Rona Easton are also past participants in the MoMA P.S.1 Young Architects Program in 2009-10. Lonn Combs received 2010-11 Independent Projects awards from the New York State Council on the Arts for ongoing research and application of lightweight structural membranes for public space implementation.
EASTON+COMBS have received numerous design awards and have been consistently recognized with award winning competition entries in national and international architectural competitions. They have received Design Merit awards in the AIANY Design Awards 2010 and the 2011 awards programs. Recently they were awarded in the biannual New Practices New York 2010 competition with the ‘highest honor’ within a field of seven new offices recognized as important emerging and innovative practices in New York City. Most recently, Lonn Combs has been awarded the 2011-12 Rome Prize in Architecture