Craft Exhibition 'One Hundred and Twenty Steps' Opens: Unseen Work, Placed in Museum Light
From a single hand-sewn hook to a finished couture corset, one hundred and twenty objects and films trace a piece's entire journey before it leaves the atelier.
Twelve workstations were moved into the museum exactly as they stand in the atelier: inspection records spread across the fabric table, the pattern-maker's chalk still on the draping stand, and — in a lightbox — thirty-seven pieces rejected by quality control, for flaws the naked eye can barely find.
The most visited work is a fourteen-minute film, Hands: no narration, only artisans' hands moving between silk, lace and measuring tape. Visitors linger here longest. "So this is how the thing I wear closest to me is made," one wrote on the message wall.
One Hundred and Twenty Steps remains on view until the 30th of April, free to the public. When it closes, every object returns to the atelier — to finish the steps still waiting.