April 30, 2021 12:43 pm
“Night clubs have the power to mean a lot to people on a number of different levels,” Night Fever: Designing Club Culture curator Kirsty Hassard says. She points to Manchester’s Haçienda, whose black and yellow Peter Saville-designed stripe pattern has even infiltrated non-clubbing culture. When the club shut down, its contents were auctioned off – from its disco ball to pieces of the floor. “People paid a lot of money to own a tangible piece of that club,” Hassard says. “It shows the elevation of design through meaning and memory.”
V&A Dundee’s new exhibition explores the design of clubs from the 1960s to the current day, with an international outlook. While New York is home to many of the clubs featured, there are locations from further abroad like Space Electronic in Florence, Italy and The Mothership in Detroit, US. Scotland too gets a mention with The Rhumba Club and Glasgow’s Sub Club.