Artists, Designers Make Over British 'Telephone Boxes'

When it comes to classics of British design, few objects rival Giles Gilbert Scott’s telephone kiosk. Immortalized in forms ranging from a popular series of UK postage stamps to an America’s Next Top Model photo shoot, the red telephone box known as the K6—whipped up by Scott in 1935 to commemorate King George V‘s Silver Jubilee—has been reimagined in whimsical full-size replicas that are scattered about London through July 18.