Bathing Beauties

Art Meets Architecture
A Linear Gallery of Seaside Beach Huts
on the Lincolnshire coast, UK.

BATHING BEAUTIES® HUTS, TOURING EXHIBITION and FESTIVAL 2009

The Bathing Beauties® international project to ‘Re-imagine the British Beach Hut for the 21st Century’ captured worldwide attention and has resulted in three Bathing Beauties® programmes.

Huts on Parade: five bold huts on the superb but partly forgotten 16kin stretch of Lincolnshire coast, UK.
Hub Touring Model Exhibition: a selection of up to 100 inspirational scale models by artists and architects worldwide, on tour in galleries in the UK.
Festival of Bathing Beauties®: the UK’s Beach Hut Festival attracted over 10,000 additional visitors to the Lincolnshire coast UK in 2007, grew again in 2008 and will take place this year from 18 - 20 September 2009.

Wish you were here? Wherever you are, you can enjoy an ogle at Bathing Beauties® on the coast, online or in a scale model exhibition.

Bathing Beauties® Beach Huts on Parade on the Lincolnshire Coast,UK
Five bold huts on permanent parade since September 2007.

Hub Touring Model Exhibition
An international tour during 2009 - 2010 of up to 100 scale models selected from international design competition entries.

Festival of Bathing Beauties®
The festival will take place this year from Fri 18 – Sun 20 Sept 2009 in Mablethorpe and Sutton-On-Sea, Lincolnshire, UK.

> News 2009
On the Lincolnshire Coast, UK.

NEW! April 2009: Now open - the UK’s first permanent cloud viewing platform, The Anderby Creek Cloud Bar, by Bathing Beauties® curator and director Michael Trainor. Officially endorsed by the Cloud Appreciation Society - see Future Projects for more details.

Bathing Beauties® full scale huts, The Mablethorpe Camera Obscura by Willett and Patteson; Come Up And See Me by Michael Trainor, Eyes Wide sHut by Feix and Merlin; Jabba by i-am associates and Halcyon Hut by Atelier NU now all belong to East Lindsey District Council. Contact the local council for details regarding daily hire.

The third Festival of Bathing Beauties® will take place from Fri 18 – Sun 20 Sept 2009. Further details at www.bathingbeautiesfestival.org

More Bathing Beauties® structures on the Lincolnshire coast UK on parade later in 2009; The Round and Round House, a bird hide by Soma Design; A Hut for Gazing and Canoodling by We Made That and Oyster Pleasance by The Beach Hut Salon will be installed.

International Scale Model Exhibition Up to one hundred 1:15 scale Bathing Beauties® Beach Hut models on show during 2009 in public galleries and spaces in the UK. The exhibition is also available for hire from 2009 - 2010. Contact the Hub for further details. www.thehubcentre.info

Bathing Beauties Channel 4

Bathing Beauties Hub Video