Photography by Agnese Sanvito © 2026
AN EXCLUSIVE EXHIBITION CURATED BY WOVEN SPACES FOR COLLECT 2026
CRAFTING SPACE: WEAVING MATERIAL INTELLIGENCE INTO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
At Woven Spaces, we believe that every material tells a story - of place, process and people. We have curated this exhibition to explore how craft can be woven into the fabric of the built environment, to transform our buildings into vessels - of community, connection and imagination.
Earlier this month, we were delighted to be a Supporting Partner of Collect, the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design at Somerset House. As part of this partnership, we curated a unique exhibition for the fair: Crafting Space.
Crafting Space explored how craft can be woven into the fabric of the built environment. Through the lens of different material practices, in wood, glass and metal, it examined how material intelligence and craft expertise that can be woven into the fabric of a building, at scale, to elevate its architecture and deliver spaces of distinction.
Featuring the work of Matthew Burt, Kate Maestri and Bureau de Change Architects, this show celebrated outcomes that are immersive and unexpected; that short circuit our expectations of what craft thinking can deliver.
“Craft is a process of material enquiry – curious, rigorous and innovative. In our age, increasingly defined and distorted by artificial intelligence, this tangible expression of material knowledge and integrity becomes ever more vital. It is a critical tool to shape the spaces we inhabit, to imbue them with meaning and forge new connections.”
Adriana Paice Kent, Founder Woven Spaces
The following artworks were displayed at Collect.
Bronze maquette, commissioned by Woven Spaces to explore the material method and pattern for the sculptural lift core, designed by Bureau de Change architects, at award-winning Gaslight Building in Fitzrovia.
This work captures the history and character of this handsome Art Deco building. Employing a makers material enquiry to deliver an unexpected architectural intervention that creates a dynamic visual signature for the building.
Photography by Gilbert McCarragher ©
Photography by Agnese Sanvito © 2026
Photography by Agnese Sanvito © 2026
Kate Maestri’s work fuses modern technology with traditional mouth-blown stained glass to create luminous architectural installations. She explores the three-dimensionality of colour and the profound role it plays in our emotional experience of space. At 10 Portman Square, her curved, double height glass wall brings a continuous ribbon of colour from the outside into the building that corresponds to the ever-changing sky and inspires connection with the elements.
Photography by Agnese Sanvito © 2026
Matthew Burt’s dynamic Waterfall Panelling transforms sections of Hampshire and Sussex Sweet chestnut, sourced from coppiced wood, into a striking, fluid architectural system that celebrates craft ingenuity in its innovate use of an often discarded material by-product. Within his installations and furniture, he brings this understanding of a material shaped by nature, crafted by hand, into the spaces we inhabit to reflect the natural world, making them unique and meaningful.