Nina Saunders Meets Sallie Leslie / Hadrian Pigott Meets John Butcher - ACE360.2

Examples of Nina Saunders’s work: a white padded armchair, an embroidered armchair, a sofa with four arm-rests (The Ladies’ Waiting Room). Nina Saunders talking about her obsession with furniture and the collection she has which she hasn’t yet altered. Talks about two executive swivel chairs. Saunders’s VO over her "bee-keeping" chair; details of the existing upholstery. Bees in a hive; Saunders visiting Dorset bee-keeper Sally Leslie. Leslie wants something colourful and imposing for the middle of her room. Saunders travelling to Dorset; her VO over bees. She arrives at Leslie’s house. Views of the rooms. Saunders shows Leslie photographs of some of her pieces, and describes The Ladies’ Waiting Room. Leslie preparing to smoke a hive. She explains the different activities. Saunders’s VO talking about the experience. Slow motion of bees in flight. Leslie’s living room. They discuss bees’ swarming, and what a swarm would look like. A swarm on a tree. Saunders in her studio. Bee swarm. She makes swarm shapes out of crumpled newspaper. She also starts to add a swarm shape to the chair. Talking about the upholstery fabric she’s going to use. The upholsterer’s workshop. Saunders VO talking about the process. Saunders buttoning the swarming forms. Intercut shots of Leslie gathering honey from a frame, Saunders sewing buttons, and the upholsterer, Constantine Morsteanu, at work. Saunders looking at completed chair. Portland, Dorset. Sally Leslie and her husband, Harry, walking on the beach while Saunders put the work together. Completed installation. The Leslies’ reaction.