Royal Academy of Arts to sell exhibits from architecture show
Exhibits from Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined will be available to buy from the RA website from 13 March 2014
When we visit an exhibition, all most of us tend to take away from it are memories - or at most a couple of postcards and a programme.
But the Royal Academy of Arts in London has decided to offer visitors to its latest architecture show Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined the chance to walk off with some of the exhibits - for a price of course.
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Sensing Spaces Architecture Reimagined, Installation View, Royal Academy of Arts 2014. Photography © Benedict Johnson
As part of its first Great Architecture Fair, which begins this week, the RA is offering people the chance to buy pieces from the exhibition and also what it describes as 'unique experiences', which include an afterhours tour of the exhibition.
Naturally, much of the work, which includes architectural installations by the likes of Kengo Kuma and Eduardo Souto de Moura, is beyond the budgets of most ordinary folk, but the RA promises that there will be items to suit everybody's wallet.
A mere tenner will get you a bag of pebbles used in Li Xiaodong's labyrinth, for example, while for a bit more - OK a lot more: £275 - you can stroll away the proud owner of some of Diébédo Francis Kéré's inventive honeycomb plastic stool.
A bag of pebbles from the installation by Li Xiaodong at 'Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined' at Royal Academy of Arts is available to buy for £10 as part of the Great Architecture Fair Photo: © www.red-photographic.com Courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Royal Academy will also be offering £5 Golden Tickets, which will enter the holder into a prize draw to win a special object from the exhibition.
The Great Architecture Fair will go live to the public at 9am on the 13 March on the Royal Academy's website, where visitors will be able to browse the full list of items available and buy directly online.
All proceeds raised from the fair will support the Royal Academy's exhibition programme.
