Jason Jacques Gallery is an American contemporary art gallery specializing in artists working in clay. Over it’s thirty year history, the gallery has both made its mark building museum collections of late 19th century European Art Pottery and become renowned for exhibiting some of the most exciting and influential international contemporary ceramic artists.
For more than thirty years, Philippe Jousse has contributed to the growing recognition of designers uch as André Borderie, Pierre Jeanneret, Georges Jouve, Le Corbusier, Mathieu Matégot, Serge Mouille, Alexandre Noll, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, and Jean Royère— all innovators of design in their time. Jousse Entreprise comprises two galleries: one located at 18 rue de Seine in the 6th arrondissement of Paris dedicated to furniture from the 1950s and 1970s, and a second space at 6 rue Saint-Claude dedicated to contemporary art.
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For more than thirty years, Philippe Jousse has contributed to the growing recognition of designers uch as André Borderie, Pierre Jeanneret, Georges Jouve, Le Corbusier, Mathieu Matégot, Serge Mouille, Alexandre Noll, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, and Jean Royère— all innovators of design in their time.
Founded by Paul Kasmin (1960–2020) in SoHo in 1989, Kasmin cultivates a rigorous exhibition program that places historic figures of Post-War art in dialogue with the evolving practice of established and emerging artists working today.
After five years spent at Galerie Downtown, I started my own gallery dedicated to 1980s Design with a strong focus on French designers such as Philippe Starck, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Martin Szekely & many more.
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As Philippe Starck once said, this piece is 'Ruhlmann in high heels'. Designed as a tribute and an ironic reference to the very bourgeois club armchair.
Laffanour mixes postwar design with contemporary furniture by artists such as Ron Arad, who the gallery has represented since 2004, as well as Choi Byung Hoon, a Korean designer with whom the gallery has been working since more than 20 years.
Lebreton was established in 1999 with locations in San Francisco and the French Riviera. Alain Lebreton and Karim Mehanna founded Lebreton to realize their combined ambition of promoting and preserving the works of major French and European artists and designers. Lebreton presents a distinguished and unique selection of artist-designed furniture, postwar ceramics, and works of art by major French modern artists.
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Juliette DEREL (French, 1918 - 2007) Vase Sculpture Carved and partially glazed ceramic vase, signed and dated 1971 Provenance: private collection French Riviera
Macklowe Gallery is the world's premier dealer of museum-quality Twentieth Century Decorative Arts. Since 1971 we have specialized in Tiffany lamps and Tiffany glass, French Art Nouveau furniture and objects, cameo glass by Argy-Rousseau, Daum and Émile Gallé, lithographs by Alphonse Mucha, and exquisite antique and estate jewelry. Displaying the most comprehensive collection of Art Nouveau pieces worldwide, we have placed works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, and The Australian National Gallery among others. Now under the leadership of Benjamin and Hillary Macklowe, Macklowe Gallery has re-dedicated itself to educating and promoting the next generation of innovative collectors.
Since 1997, Magen H Gallery has pioneered revolutionary and significant design in sculpture, decorative arts, architecture, and ceramics. With special emphasis given to French post-war designers, the collection progresses the artistic dialogue between these historically significant works and contemporaries who visually articulate a personal philosophy. These pieces reveal the compelling tension between the organic spirit of the material and the artists' mastery over the medium. From its inception, the collection of works has been built on the founding premise that art and design are allied and interdependent.
MANIERA invites architects with unique modes of working, as well as artists with a close relationship with architecture, to develop limited-edition furniture. Complementing design proposals by established figures with ones by a younger, emerging generation, the gallery represents a diverse group of artists and designers.
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The Bamboo Study III - Urushi is fully produced by local artisans of Studio Mumbai who play an important role in the architectural practice led by Bijoy Jain. The object reflects the studio's methodology of combining tradition and modernity and referring both to Indian, as well as Western cultures.
One of the foremost Design galleries in Brazil, Mercado Moderno has been a key player in the recent global newfound appreciation for modern Brazilian furniture. After two decades of ostracism, there came a historical revisiting of the work produced between 1940 and 1970, coinciding with the gallery’s 2001 foundation. Since then, the enterprise called for arduous investigative work, still the daily routine for its founders, Alberto Vicente and Marcelo Vasconcellos, consolidated as renowned specialists on this subject, by being responsible for recording and disseminating their knowledge, through the organization and support of key exhibitions and publications on the topic.
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Mercado Moderno presents Brazilian Warmth by Ines Schertel. One of the main Design galleries in Brazil, Mercado Moderno, founded by Alberto Vicente and Marcelo Vasconcellos in Rio de Janeiro in 2001 brings a Curio filled with the refined curation that characterizes the gallery's exhibitions.
The "slow Design" of the Brazilian designer Ines Schertel - here portrayed by the sensitive eyes of the French photographer Vincent Lappartient - brings the typical Brazilian warmth, translated by the use of wool, showing that creativity in the use of materials has always been a hallmark of Brazilian Design.
An essentially elegant and organic ambience, with handcrafted works and minimalist images, made to last, in complete harmony with the desires of present collectionism.
Mindy Solomon Gallery specializes in contemporary emerging and mid-career artists and art advisory services. The gallery represents artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, and video in both narrative and non-objective styles. The gallery program explores the intersection of art and design through an ongoing dialog between two and three-dimensional objects, while embracing diasporic voices. Utilizing the gallery space as a platform for inventive exhibitions, museum visitations, and public lectures, Solomon invites a sense of community and aesthetic enrichment.
Moderne Gallery has been internationally renowned for its high quality, vintage 20th Century furniture, lighting and accessories since 1984. 16,000 sq. ft. are filled with an extensive inventory — from French and American designs from the 1920's - 1980's to exclusive George Nakashima and Wharton Esherick pieces. In 1985 Moderne Gallery was the first gallery to promote the work of George Nakashima and still has the finest and largest selection of his designs. Responding to requests from collectors of studio crafts, Moderne Gallery extended its inventory to include vintage work by Sam Maloof, David Ebner, Peter Voulkos, Toshiko Takaezu, Edward Moulthrop, William Hunter and many others. Moderne Gallery is unique in its specialization in vintage work from the American Studio Craft Movement.
Starting from the end of the 1990s, Nilufar Gallery— founded in 1979 in Milan by Nina Yashar—carved its own space in the art and design world and became the reference point for historical design lovers and those interested in the evolution of contemporary design. The gallery’s poetic and visionary areas shift between furniture production and contemporary art. Founded and directed by Nina Yashar, Nilufar attends the most relevant art and design fairs worldwide, such as TEFAF New York Spring, Design Miami/ Basel, PAD London, Salon Art + Design New York, and NOMAD. Nilufar Gallery keeps pushing the boundaries of its own manifesto: discovering, crossing, creating.
Objective creates a narrative environment that embraces a personal and collaborative approach to art and design. It unifies artists and designers in creating a collection of functional yet elegant furniture, lighting, art and lifestyle objects. Curated in an evocative gallery space housed within a historic building of Shanghaiʼs Bund. Objective is a multi-disciplinary brand that sources lifestyle objects from around the globe both to inspire aesthetically and to promote a mindful way of life.
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With an emphasis on uncompromising quality and bespoke tailored design, Objective connects desires with talents, blurring the boundary between art, design and craftsmanship.
Founded in 2002, Ornamentum Gallery exhibits a dynamic collection of contemporary jewelry as well as related objects and artworks. Ornamentum hosts numerous exhibitions yearly in a large tin-ceilinged exhibition space where featured artists display their work in conceptual installations. As the first gallery to exhibit contemporary jewelry at the (2008) Design Miami/ fair, Ornamentum is established as a pioneering force for introducing this exciting medium to international design audiences, working to help build many of the world’s most significant public and private collections of contemporary jewelry and playing a pivotal role in numerous acquisitions of important works by key museums. Whether based in material experimentation, conceptual content or a combination of both, the work exhibited by Ornamentum must challenge conventions and be absolutely individual in content and form.
Specializing in contemporary decorative arts, Pierre Marie Giraud showcases international artists, craftsmen, and designers, with a focus on ceramics, glass, and Japanese crafts. Since 2005 the gallery has run a finetuned program supporting emerging and established artists, and collaborates with designers to produce unique objects and limited editions. Giraud’s selection exemplifies the implementation of refined materials, techniques, and knowhow in exclusive artworks. Throughout the year, Pierre Marie Giraud hosts a program of solo and thematic exhibitions in his Brussels space, participates in international fairs, produces monographic publications, and frequently collaborates with museums and institutions for his expertise in ceramics.
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The artwork shown in the picture is a creation of the renowned Japanese ceramicist Kazunori Hamana. Hamana's artworks all have the presence of once-inhabited shells from which all things organic have been scraped out, or of objects whose surfaces have been washed smooth by the sea. Sometimes bearing engravings and scratches, the works echo the seaside environment from which the artist draws his inspiration. A self-taught ceramicist, Hamana settled in Isumi, Chiba prefecture (Japan), where he shares his time between working as a fisherman and a craftsperson. Over a time consuming process, Hamana's irregular pots are built from coils and get their unique skin from scratches and scored glazes. The works reconnect with the simplicity and humbleness of a vernacular tradition of ceramics, one that has been present in Japan for centuries. Hamana's creations always stay true to these ancient Japanese customs, but at the same time they never cease to amaze the viewer with their modern approach.
PONCE BERGA, established in 2017, is a design gallery in West Palm Beach, FL that focuses on historical 20th-Century design from Scandinavia, the United States, Italy, and France. Through a recontextualization of parallel conversations and display strategies, we create an environment that oscillates between the institutional and the domestic. Our inventory and exhibitions feature objects that range from the critically-acclaimed to the anonymously authored; highlights include pieces by Gio Ponti, Richard Neutra, and Finn Juhl to name a few.
Priveekollektie Contemporary Art | Design was founded in 2006 by Miriam and Irving van Dijk. As avid and passionate collectors themselves, the Dutch power couple left their professional careers to follow their hearts and expand their own internationally operating gallery. Translated as private collection, the name transmits the policy and provenance of the gallery with a legacy in personal curation and intimate bonds with collectors and artists. Based in the Netherlands, the Priveekollektie annually participates in over six world renowned international art fairs featuring a highly curated selection of works united by three pillars: concept, quality, and taste. The gallery operates through the founders’ personal approach, expansive knowledge, eye for detail, and unique tastes to merge together the two disciplines: contemporary art and collectible design.
Founded in 1997 by Zesty Meyers and Evan Snyderman, R & Company is defined by their combined goals of promoting a closer study, appreciation, and preservation of 20th and 21st century design.
R & Company develops exhibitions and publications about its represented designers, encompassing a diverse program that includes work from North America, South America, Europe, and Asia produced between 1945 and today. In addition to international participation in respected exhibitions and fairs, the R & Company exhibition program in New York is anchored by two gallery spaces located in the Tribeca East Historic District: 82 Franklin Street and 64 White Street.
Salon 94 Design produces exhibitions that challenge the traditions of and boundaries between fine art, functional objects, and the decorative arts. The program was established by Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Paul Johnson in early 2017. Salon 94 Design represents Anton Alvarez, Thomas Berger, Kueng Caputo, Jack Craig, Karl Fritsch, Jay Sae Jung Oh, Dozie Kanu, Max Lamb, Kwangho Lee, Rick Owens, and Gaetano Pesce, among others.
Sarah Myerscough Gallery represents international artist-designer-makers, whose practices are grounded in craft-making traditions, yet are defined by contemporary innovation and invention. The works celebrate the dialogue between history and future, hand and technology, form and function. The gallery’s aesthetic is centred on material-led processes and relishes the connection to the natural world: organic material and form, with a focus on wood. It embraces the elemental and the imperfect and seeks creative authenticity and integrity, indulging in tactility and sensory experiences, which inform each object and unique sculptural furniture piece.
SIDE GALLERY, established in Barcelona in 2016, works with international design of the twentieth century and contemporary design. The gallery focuses on Latin American historical design from countries such as Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, primarily concentrating on the work of Luis Barragán, Lina Bo Bardi, Oscar Niemeyer, and Joaquim Tenreiro. For its contemporary design projects, the gallery invites international designers to rethink design and handcraft traditions, proposing a dialogue between two centuries to develop limited-edition works, commissioned and produced exclusively.
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Geraldo de Barros is regarded as a pioneer, his ideas of modernity envisioned social utility beyond the traditional conventions of Sao Paulo society. He founded collaborations and collectives, perhaps his most ambitious being the formation of the Unilabor community. Created in 1954, Unilabor became a mechanism of modernization from below, producing furniture based on his constructive references with function outside of cognitive perception. Unilabor was unity in work and a unity through work. A self-managed factory run by the workers, it was a system of production that aimed to unify not only form and function, but also a living community and production processes. The discreet beauty of Unilabor furniture pieces is certainly informed by this balance of forces. In its context, Unilabor in fact quickly became a social model. It was a working environment that was perceived as healthy. Side Gallery will dedicate their booth to the work of this prolific furniture maker. The gallery will work in collaboration with the family of Gerlado de Barros and will display a selection of works in several mediums such as furniture, photography and painting, some of them from the De Barros estate and from private collections never shown till now.
Southern Guild commissions, produces and exhibits contemporary collectible work by the most compelling designers in South Africa. The gallery has pioneered the collectible design category on the continent, propelling its artists and designers to make original work that is distinctly African and globally relevant. Founded in 2008 by Trevyn and Julian McGowan, Southern Guild’s rigorous curatorial programme has shaped the world’s perceptions of African design and forged a unique vernacular. Located in Cape Town’s Silo District, the gallery showcases limited-edition and one-off pieces that have garnered multiple awards and caught the attention of the world’s leading collectors, auction houses, museums and institutions.
The Future Perfect was founded by David Alhadeff in 2003 and has become one of the world’s foremost contemporary design galleries. From its inception, The Future Perfect has been distinguished by its thoroughly creative and ebullient vision and strong curatorial focus, which showcases studio-created works alongside one-of-a-kind and limited edition pieces.
Thomas Fritsch opened his gallery of French decorative arts from 1945 to 1970 in 2004. He is acknowledged as the specialist on postwar French ceramics and has presented exhibitions of works by Pol Chambost (2006), Suzanne Ramié (Madoura) (2012), André Aleth Masson (2013), Jacques and Dani Ruelland (2014), and Mado Jolain (2016). The gallery has participated in Design Miami/ Basel since 2013; Salon Art + Design, New York, and Design Miami/ since 2015; and presented at TEFAF Maastricht since 2018.
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Georges Jouve is the best known French ceramist of the 1950s. Born in 1910 and deceased in 1964, he is particularly recognized for his works of art with this «silver black» enamel that characterizes his work. Before using this enamel in the early 1950s, Jouve’s work was more figurative, more baroque. In the 1950s, shapes became simpler, patterns and decor more abstract. Jouve develops spiraled white enamel as well as silver black enamel. We cannot compare this enamel to any other of the period. The metallic rendering gives all its charm to his pieces. The pieces presented are «Vases Pomme» (Apple Vases), a 1955 model, created in five sizes. The pieces presented are a very large and a small model. The off-center neck of each of the vases shows well the attention and time spent in the creation of his works. This model has long found its place in the largest collections devoted to the design of the 50s, as it is characteristic of this period and of the work of Jouve.
Thomsen Gallery is one of America’s top leading dealers in Japanese art and design, with an impeccable professional record and an outstanding reputation for the quality of its exhibitions and the elegance and scholarly depth of its publications. Specializing in antique and modern folding screens, paintings, lacquer, bamboo, and ceramics, Erik Thomsen has been dealing since 1984 and has maintained a public gallery in New York since his move to the city in 2006. A fluent speaker of Japanese, Thomsen serves as a cultural bridge between Japan and the West, regularly placing important works into American and European museums and private collections.
Todd Merrill Studio represents an international group of established and emerging artists, each with a singular artistic vision and unprecedented point of view. In creating unique works of collectible design, each artist takes a hands-on approach that intersects contemporary design, fine art, traditional craft techniques, and pioneering innovation. Individually, through meticulous craftsmanship and rigorous studio experimentation, each has developed leading-edge, proprietary methods that break previously set inherent limitations of conventional materials like wood, metal, plaster, concrete, ceramics, glass, and resin. Their intimate studio approach fosters an atmosphere of creativity where the work rendered significantly bears the hand of the artist. Collectively the artists are helping to create a new visual vocabulary that advances long-held, established artistic boundaries. Their dynamic, one-of-a-kind, and frequently groundbreaking works contribute to today’s increasingly relevant grey space between art and design.
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Markus Haase’s monumental Cloud Series light sculpture, Stratus, was originally commissioned for Related Companies’ soon to open New York City luxury building, The Cortland. At over nine by two and a half meters, the sculpture is hung from the ceiling at varying levels, composed of tiered, interconnected bronze and onyx “vines” and “rings” embedded with LEDs. Haase’s Stratus creates a sweeping landscape of radiant, sculpted light welcoming residents into the lobby.
Haase is one of the only artists working today, creating one-of-a-kind bespoke lighting in bronze. Rather than using the material casting process as a mechanism for creating multiples, each of his custom light sculptures is completely unique. Every component is hand-carved before being cast using the “lost mold” method, destroying the original. Precious stone, onyx, or alabaster is then hand-carved and set in the bronze structure, diffusing the internal LEDs. Haase embodies the independent artisan with each work bearing the distinct mark of the maker’s hand. The ethereal glow of his jewelry-like fixtures is unparalleled in today’s diverse market of art and design, defining a new artistry for the 21st century.
Volume Gallery focuses on American art and design, with a strong emphasis placed on emerging contemporary designers. Volume Gallery releases editions, publications and organizes exhibits that showcase the work of American artists and designers to regional, national and international audiences. We are asking critical questions of what it means to be an American artist or designer in a culture that is rapidly becoming more global, while simultaneously examining the American experience.
