The fit-out is the latest in a string of installations at the venue by artists and designers. "Normally it involves mostly the walls and perhaps some lighting," East London Furniture's Christian Dillon told Dezeen. "We wanted to take over the whole bar."

The team removed all the furniture and replaced it with tables made from pallets and ceiling joists, plus benches inspired by nineteenth century Shaker furniture.

"We created all of the free-standing seating, tables and lighting in our workshop, but left the inbuilt elements to be created in situ," said Dillon. "So much of the inbuilt seating, especially the booth or 'pulpit', were conceived in the space from materials we had to hand."

The team have lined the walls and front of the counter with wooden panels, while the throne-like seating booth is made from old skirting boards and fills the recess beside a staircase.

The cube-shaped lights hanging above the bar were created from the offcuts of other furniture made by the team and the wall-mounted lighting was produced from recycled wooden blocks.

Friend and regular collaborator Alessandro Mistrulli has decorated many of the surfaces with illustrations showing severed arms and wood-working tools. "I think I saw him reading a book on Russian prison tattoos the night before he delivered the main graphic," said Dillon.

The installation will remain in place for two months, but was completed to coincide with the London Design Festival last week.

"For us to have a show in the festival, where people are actually using the furniture to have a nice meal, a nice beer or chatting to a nice girl or guy is so much more interesting than a static display of our furniture," explained Dillon.

Dillon and team mates Ben Green and Reuben Le Prevost founded the Hackney-based furniture company in 2011 - see our earlier story about them here.

A past installation we've featured at DreamBags JaguarShoes featured wallpaper that changes under different lighting conditions.

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Photography is by Jeff Metal, courtesy of JaguarShoes Collective.

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Milanese collective Carnovsky have decked out east London bar and gallery DreamBags JaguarShoes in their wallpaper that changes under different lighting conditions.

Called RGB, the papers are printed in red, green, blue and yellow to reveal different layers of imagery when viewed with coloured lighting.

Big game emerge from the undergrowth in red lighting, monkeys in blue lighting and a jungle of plants in green lighting.

A series of limited edition prints is also on show.

DreamBags JaguarShoes is named after the two shops that occupied the space in the 1980s. The same signs still hang on the shop front.

The exhibition continues until 21 September.

Images by Jeff Metal, courtesy of JaguarShoes Collective.

Here are some more details from Carnovsky:

RGB by Carnovsky at DreamBags-JaguarShoes

RGB is a work about the exploration of the “surface’s deepness”.

RGB designs create surfaces that mutate and interact with different chromatic stimulus.

RGB’s technique consists in the overlapping of three different images, each one in a primary color.

The resulting images from this three level’s superimposition are unexpected and disorienting.

The colors mix up, the lines and shapes entwine becoming oneiric and not completely clear.

Through a colored filter (a light or a transparent material) it is possible to see clearly the layers in which the image is composed.

The filter’s colors are red, green and blue, each one of them serves to reveal one of the three levels.

In each image three layers live together, three worlds that could belong to a specific animal kingdom or to an anatomical part, but at the same time connect to a different psychological or emotional status that passes from the clear to the hidden, from the light to the darkness, from the awakeness to the dream in something that could be a sort of exploration of the surface’s deepness.

We have always wanted to explore the concept of "Jungle" or really tangled, intricate and dense tropical forest, and for the exhibition at DreamBags-JaguarShoes we have created some new pieces, new wallpapers and new limited edition prints about this idea.

The jungle subject, with its exuberant, twisted and redundant vegetation that hides bizarre creatures, lends us to the exploration of another theme: the night.

For the first time in fact we are presenting some pieces from a new series that represents an evolution of our RGB project: RGB - The black series.

They follow the same original RGB principles but inverted, so it works over a black background and, looking through the filters, lights or transparent materials in the three colors, the worlds appear on negative.

The space at DreamBags-JaguarShoes that was already divided in two, gave us the idea to divide the installation in two parts, one white and one black, as if they were the day and the night.

Through a green filter or light it is possible to see the jungle clearly, and through a red all the jungle animals appear, well, not all of them, the blue filter makes an entire guffawing monkey's tribe emerge embroiling with the other creatures behind the dense vegetation.

Carnovsky is a Milan based artist/designer duo comprised of Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla

28th July – 21st September 2011

DreamBags-JaguarShoes
32-34 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch,
London E2 8DA

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