Sitting in the genteel south coast town of Bexhill-on-Sea, The De La Warr Pavilion is a modernist icon designed by Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff which opened in 1935. Like the building itself, the programme defies the rather traditional environs and in the two years I lived in the area I saw everything from a talk by Will Self and a brilliant exhibition of post-war American photography to a collaboration between Beardyman and The Heritage Orchestra. It’ll make a good day-out double bill with the newly-opened Jerwood in Hastings, but something tells me the De La Warr isn’t ready to relinquish its place as that area’s artistic frontrunner.
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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.