KN Group x Stamos Michael Exhibition

Athens-based architectural design practice KN Group partners with artist-designer Stamos Michael to present "Part of something", a commissioned work, as part of the first edition of Athens Design Forum.

Conceived as a site-specific environment that calls upon ecologies of the local, traditional, and personal vocabularies, "Part of something" proposes four instances of a repose pavilion, enclosed within the realm of open space surroundings. Four individual elements — a tree, a platform, a set of partitions, and a gate — are pieced together each time to form a quad where materiality, the natural environment, craft, design, and open space, are contemplated to a symbolic excess.

The project will be presented in two venues:

Τhe garden of the Vorres Museum, a once closed-off private space that will be opened for this occasion will host the first realised installation. The abundant spolia mixed with the rich foliage enables the audience to interact with the installation in an intimate manner - the audience encounters a temporal-built structure in a historic landscape.

The design research and the architectural studies for the first three instances will be exhibited on the first floor of KN Group’s eclectic office in conversation with a series of collectible objects produced by the artist, especially for Athens Design Forum.