Having created The Haçienda’s bold stripes, designed legendary record sleeves and rescued the colour orange from style oblivion, influential British designer Ben Kelly continues to make his mark with sculptural installations and graphic interiors
, set to debut at the Manchester International Festival next year. It reimagines a sprawling space in the city’s old Granada TV Studios to carry echoes of The Haçienda’s multi-use layout, which at points housed everything from a cafeteria to a hairdresser.
Kelly grew up in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales, where he attended a local primary school that had just 11 students. ‘Academically I was hopeless, but I was buying. Even now, I don’t know how the hell I got them up there,’ he recalls. ‘Through that, I became obsessed with what people were wearing. Art school just became this magnetic force.
Meanwhile, Kelly’s girlfriend at the time, a fashion designer, introduced him to the founders of the avant-garde boutique Howie, and when they opened their first store in Covent Garden, Kelly was their first pick to design it. ‘I designed perforated panels to go behind the glass doors,’ he says. ‘That became really quite an influential piece of work, and it led to my meeting with Peter.’
Peter, of course, being Peter Saville. Today renowned as two of the most important designers in 1980s British music, the pair first met in a members’ club in Covent Garden. When Saville was working on a record sleeve for the eponymous debut album of new wave band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Kelly suggested he check out Howie’s doors.
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