Art - Only in St Ives, Cornwall can a Barbara Hepworth sculpture grace the entrance of a car park. This is the car park to the Barnaloft/Piazza apartments on Porthmeor Beach in St. Ives. The building was designed in the early 1960s by Henry C. Gilbert, better known as Gillie and integral to the artistic life of St Ives for the half century that he lived and worked in the town as an architect and an art gallerist. Bernard Leach said about him: “We owe Mr Gilbert a great deal for what he has contributed to art in what used to be a fishing village” and Leach actually moved into number 4 Barnaloft in the latter part of his life after he had given up potting. Gillie brought two of Hepworth’s sculptures into the design for the Barnaloft/Piazza apartments – the bronze ‘Two forms in Echelon’ and ‘Single Form with Two Hollows’ at the east end of the building, and he championed local artists, holding an exhibition in the Guildhall to celebrate the granting of the Freedom of the borough of St Ives to Hepworth, Nicholson and Leach in the late 1960s. . . . . Photograph @aesthetelabel #art #abstractsculpture #gallery #interiordesign #interiorstyling #interiors #interiorinspo #interiorstylists #instahome #curatedvintage #curatedhome #consciousliving #conscioushome #vintagehome #vintagestyle #igvintage #shopsustainable #vogueliving #elledecor #vintageonyx #stayhomestilllife #vegan #crueltyfree #plantbased #aesthetelabel #styleathome #homecorner #vintagestyling #homedecor #neutraldecor https://www.instagram.com/p/CUQnaN7KkT7/?utm_medium=tumblr
