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Art Meets Architecture A Linear Gallery of Seaside Beach Hutson the Lincolnshire coast, UK.
The Bathing Beauties® international project to ‘Re-imagine the Beach Hut for the 21st Century’ captured worldwide attention and has resulted in three Bathing Beauties® programmes.
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 [click to Huts on Parade Text Page]
Five bold huts on parade – you can read more about them on the Huts on Parade text page.
Hub Touring Model Exhibition [click to Touring Exhibition Text Page]
An international tour of up to 100 scale models selected from the international design competition entries.
Festival of Bathing Beauties® [click to Festival Text Page]
From Sat 20 – Sun 21 Sept 2008 in Mablethorpe and Sutton-On-Sea, Lincolnshire, UK.
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On the Lincolnshire Coast, UK.
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 and will be available for daily hire. Contact the local council for further details.
The second Festival of Bathing Beauties® took place over Sat 20 – Sun 21 Sept 2008. Further details at www.bathingbeautiesfestival.org
More Bathing Beauties® structures on the Lincolnshire coast UK will be on parade in late Autumn 2008 including The Round and Round House, a bird hide by Soma Design and the UK’s first Cloud Bar, for cloud watching with pleasure, by Bathing Beauties® curator and director Michael Trainor. In 2009, 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 are on show in 2008 – 2009 in public galleries and spaces in the UK, France and Canada. The exhibition is also available for hire from 2008 - 2010.
Contact the Hub for further details. www.thehubcentre.info
NEW! FILM FOOTAGE Short Film:
Short Film © Channel 4 News 2007. (4 minutes) [click to view the short film footage]
Short Film: The Bathing Beauties Story 2007 © Electric Egg. (8 minutes) [click to view the short film footage]