JW Anderson is running a Miami pop-up during the city’s Art Week in partnership with luxury retailer The Webster. It comes after the reinvention of the JW Anderson that now reflects Jonathan Anderson’s “utterly personal urge” to curate.
JW Anderson x The Webster
The ‘new’ JW Anderson is “centred on objects of elevated craftsmanship, curated fashion collections alongside homewares, artisanal goods and the very idea of collecting. A modern-day cabinet of curiosities”.
And this is what can be found at the JW Anderson x The Webster pop-up, which is open until 15 December at 1220 Collins Avenue Miami Fl, 33139. It’s a big deal for the brand given that it marks the first regional showcase of its “newly reimagined world”. It’s also a key moment in the label’s US expansion, “reintroducing the brand to an extended audience”.
So what can visitors find there? Pieces include knitwear “spun from the finest yarns, Japanese-crafted denim developed with expert makers, fold-over trousers inspired by archival designs, crafted in Donegal tweed and finest Locharron pure new wool tartan”.
These “elevated” versions of classic garments, “with a connection to local makers, sit alongside objects crafted in collaboration with artists and artisans”.
That means furniture, homewares and home textiles such as re-editions of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s stools in Scottish oak, Jason Mosseri’s Hope Spring Chairs, Lucie Rie mugs, handmade Murano glassware, Welsh blankets, and ceramics by Akiko Hirai.
There are also hand-picked books and antique gardening tools, hand-forged nails, Houghton Hall Estate honey and coffee-flavoured tea from Postcard Teas, “extending the language of craftmanship. Heritage imagined through a contemporary lens”.
The pop-up concept was developed in collaboration with architects Sanchez Benton with the company saying the space “embodies the design language of the brand, a dialogue with the handmade and expertly crafted”.
