The exhibition is curated by artist and lifelong Beano fan Andy Holden, who gathers today’s greatest creative rule-breakers, including writers, musicians, painters, sculptors and photographers. Each creative revels in their own spirit of rebellion and contributors include Sarah Lucas, Hardeep Pandhal, Phyllida Barlow, pop star Chris Sievey (otherwise known by his alter-ego Frank Sidebottom), Martin Creed, Alex […]

Curated by Art Review Breaking the Waves brings together the works of 14 highly acclaimed artists and artist collectives from around the world – Larry Achiampong, Yuko Mohri & David Horvitz, Wolfgang Tillmans, Eisa Jocson, Laure Prouvost, Adriano Costa, Jac Leirner, Chim↑Pom, Ho Tzu Nyen & Ripon Chowdhury, Michael Joo, Zheng Bo, Slime Engine – to […]

Designed with Mini Living for London Design Festival 2017 London is a city of books before it is a city of architecture. Alongside outcrops of that thing we call architecture other forms of cultural expression have been the site of our real cultural imagination. Perhaps most of all it is through writing and reading that […]

These turned tables in oak and sycamore are differentiated by the distinctive profiles of their shafts. The profiles are drawn from plastic bottles, soft drinks, cleaning products that are cut up, rearranged and juxtaposed with fragments of the Eames’ iconic stools. These ephemeral packaging forms, often bound for landfill or worse, are here transformed into […]

Sam collaborated with multidisciplinary artist and designer Yinka Ilori to create his new studio in Park Royal, London. Drawing inspiration from Ilori’s British-Nigerian heritage Ilori and Jacob have created a dynamic, layered space which incorporates the bright colours and playful elements that are characteristic of the designer’s work, while rethinking the role and function of the artists’ […]

This project involved the remodelling of the V&A’s Cromwell Road entrance to upgrade key moments in the visitor arrival sequence. The project deals with key public interfaces  – including a new entrance lobby, new ticket / information desk and new WC’s – that are also designed to introduce delight and surprise. The project argues that […]

Fragmented Follies is a set of objects that are part landscape, part sculpture, part furniture that invite visitors to sit on, picnic at, and otherwise interact with their unusual forms.  The shape of the follies was drawn from the surrounding context of the park and its history, referencing elements including the chimneys of Battersea Power […]

Exhibition design for the inaugural show at the new Design Museum, titled Fear And Love: Reactions to a Complex World that featured 11 original installations by designers including OMA/AMO, Hussein Chalayan, Andrés Jaque and Metahaven. The Financial Times review noted: “The exhibition design, by Sam Jacob Studio, is simple and superb, with sinister grey pleated […]

The Architecture Gallery at RIBA, May – Nov 2018 Disappear Here is a show about the power of perspective to shape not only graphic space of representation and drawings but also its ability to transform the world around us. It features a selection of drawings by diverse architects and designers including Palladio, Superstudio and Boullee […]

Through a playful and provocative display The Lie of the Land charts how British landscape was radically transformed by changes in free time and leisure activities since hunting and shooting, the recreations of the aristocracy, were enjoyed on the rolling hills of their private estates. In part, tracing a line between Capability Brown’s aristocratic gardens at Stowe […]

                    “A Clockwork Jerusalem describes a world where ruins become utopias, where archaeology and futurism merge, the Picturesque is reimagined as concrete geometry, and where pop culture, history and social ambition are fused into new national futures. It argues for a rebooting of the British tradition […]

We are working to give Kingly Court a striking new identity, improve its connections and visibility through a series of phased upgrades. Kingly Court is a three-storey alfresco food and dining destination in the heart of London’s West End, a food hub with 21 international concept restaurants, bars and cafés situated in a courtyard, which is open air throughout the […]