Sam Jacob designs cutting-edge art gallery

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Source: Jim Stephenson

Project combines hair salon, gallery and training academy

Sam Jacob Studio has completed a new premises for an experimental hairdresser that is also an art gallery.

In addition Jacob has curated the first show in the space, featuring Assemble, OMA co-founder Madelon Vriesendorp, OMMX Architects, DK-CM and his old FAT collaborator Sean Griffiths.

DKUK is a hair salon at Queens Road Peckham founded by Daniel Kelly who retrained as an artist and now uses his salon to train artists to be hairdressers, giving them a potential extra income stream.

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