In this Autumn's edition of MODERN MADE: Modern, Post-War & Contemporary Art, Design, Craft and Studio Ceramics, we are delighted to present Part II of the late photographer and graphic designer Steve Allison's Collection.
As Allison’s children recall, their father’s connection with the world was “a visual and aesthetic one. Design was his life and he felt things viscerally when he looked at art and objects. The works he collected spoke to him deeply and we think tell us something about who he was and how he saw the world..."
Steve Allison’s extensive collection of works by Gaetano Pesce was one of the most significant in private hands in the UK. An architect as well as a designer, Pesce challenged the orthodoxy of design, instilling his own radical vision with a mischievous grin, in a career that spanned 55 years. The Allison Collection represents all of Pesce’s aesthetic philosophies, as well as his hopes for a future filled with creativity, innovation and humour – values that Allison himself applied to his own work as a photographer and in his career as a graphic designer.