Paintings, Prints & Drawings — 1997
Café Box
The Savoy Café on Hackney's Graham Road was a typical 1950s-style 'greasy spoon' café. Owned and run by an Italian family, the café closed in the mid-1990s.
In Café Box, James Mackinnon has faithfully recreated the Savoy's street facade. Behind the windows, photographs, props and lighting recreate a shallow three-dimensional interior.
'A lot of London's most interesting architecture is slowly disappearing and I suppose I am capturing things which are not going to be around forever. But I'm also very interested in people and places and what mark people leave on buildings', he said.
A Londoner born and bred, Mackinnon studied at Kingston Polytechnic. He gained some experience in film and television design before becoming a full-time painter and model maker.
- Category:
- Paintings, Prints & Drawings
- Object ID:
- 98.10
- Object name:
- Café Box
- Object type:
- Artist/Maker:
- Mackinnon, James
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- Production date:
- 1997
- Material:
photographic gelatin, paper, wood
- Measurements/duration:
- H 460 mm, W 593 mm, D 206 mm
- Part of:
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- On display:
- —
- Record quality:
- 100%
- Part of this object:
- —
- Owner Status & Credit:
Permanent collection
- Copyright holder:
Mackinnon, James
- Image credit:
© James Mackinnon
- Creative commons usage:
- —
- License this image:
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