Despoke » PAD London http://www.despoke.com 100% Design London's new blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:41:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 PAD London 12th – 16th October 2011 http://www.despoke.com/2011/10/05/pad-london-12th-%e2%80%93-16th-october-2011/ http://www.despoke.com/2011/10/05/pad-london-12th-%e2%80%93-16th-october-2011/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:31:33 +0000 Mark http://www.despoke.com/?p=9119
Patrick Perrin and Stéphane Custot are pleased to announce the final selection of participants for the fifth edition of the Pavilion of Art & Design London. Bringing together an incredible set of 57 galleries from 11 countries to its prime location on Berkeley Square, PAD London 2011 promises to be the strongest edition of the fair since its inception in 2007. A rigorous selection process introduces to London the best dealers from Europe and North America within the fields of Modern Art, Design, Decorative Arts, Photography and Tribal Art from 1860 to today.

Opening a new London space in October, Luxembourg & Dayan (USA) make their first appearance with modern artworks by Alexander Calder, Steven Parrino and Anselm Kiefer. Owned by former Sotheby’s directors and known for their stable of incredible modern and contemporary artists, Mitchell-Innes & Nash (USA) offer artworks by Alberto Burri and Kenneth Noland. Making their debut to the fair is Eykyn Maclean (USA), the New York-based private dealers also opening a new London space in 2012, specialising in museum-quality artworks ranging from Impressionism to Post-War. Concentrating on Italian modern masters, Galleria Tega (Italy) presents fantastic works such as a golden punctured canvas by Lucio Fontana. Rounding out the Modern British faction and joining Robin Katz Fine Art (UK) and Osborne Samuel (UK) is Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert (UK), who emphasises on internationally renowned 20th C. artists from the genre. Galerie Pascal Lansberg (France) features an incredible selection of modern and contemporary art, with particular focus in Pop Art, Abstraction and Nouveau Realism. Also displaying modern art is Natalie Seroussi (France), showing works by Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet and Victor Vasarely alongside 20th C. design from Galerie du Passage (France) at their shared stand at PAD London.
Superb examples of Scandinavian furniture, including chairs and tables by Finn Juhl and Poul Kjaerholm, are exhibited at Dansk Møbelkunst (Denmark), while Swedish gallery Modernity (Sweden) shows a rare decorated chest by architect Josef Frank and sterling silver candelabra by Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala. One of Jean Prouvé’s first masterpieces, the Fauteuil “cité”, created as part of a competition to design chairs for the university in Nancy, features at Jousse Entreprise (France), while Yves Macaux (Belgium), an international expert in the Viennese Secession, presents a brass chandelier by Adolf Loos and dining chairs by Joseph Urban. British antiques dealers Blairman & Sons (UK) display fine 19th C. furniture and decorative objects from the Arts & Crafts movement by artists such as Dr Christopher Dresser and EW Godwin.
Dominating a significant portion of the fair are stands dedicated to the most cutting-edge of contemporary design, with many galleries commissioning new works specifically for the occasion. Priveekollektie (The Netherlands) shows pieces from emerging and established designers, including Arik Levy, Rolf Sachs and Reinier Bosch. David Gill Galleries (UK) returns to PAD London after a two-year hiatus with works by design greats such as Fredrikson Stallard and Mattia Bonetti, staging their contemporary furniture alongside a 1966 cabinet by Ettore Sottsass. Nilufar Gallery (Italy) bridges the gap between 20th C. and contemporary design with neon lighting by Michael Anastassiades, bookcases by Martino Gamper and curved tables designed by British artist Bethan Laura Wood.
Once again Moët Hennessy sponsors the donation of a significant piece of Design or Decorative Arts to the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the Moët Hennessy-PAD London Prize. The prestigious judging panel, chaired by architect and designer Nigel Coates, is comprised of prominent figures in the fields of art, fashion, culture, communication and business, such as Allegra Hicks, Jasper Conran, Tom Dixon, Bella Freud and Karla Otto. Previous years have seen the V&A acquire exquisite pieces from Friedman Benda (USA) and Carpenters Workshop Gallery (UK).

List of Exhibiting Galleries
www.padlondon.net

]]> http://www.despoke.com/2011/10/05/pad-london-12th-%e2%80%93-16th-october-2011/feed/ 0 ‘Halloween’ for Despoke By Phil Nutley http://www.despoke.com/2009/10/30/%e2%80%98halloween%e2%80%99-for-despoke-by-phil-nutley/ http://www.despoke.com/2009/10/30/%e2%80%98halloween%e2%80%99-for-despoke-by-phil-nutley/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:32:18 +0000 Mark http://www.despoke.com/?p=1207 IMG_8983
Turning back the clocks denotes one old tradition, Halloween. It’s origins date back from the ancient festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sau-an), which is derived from Old Irish and means roughly “summer’s end”. For me, it’s the appeal of finding those extra pair of werewolf feet from a pound store, it’s rekindles my earliest memories of watching Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby, running stage right from a Blue Peter made ghoul.

The season always brings out the terrible horror flicks, and the Hammer House of Horrors still gets me diving behind the sofa.

I’ve always enjoyed the way we scare ourselves with what amounts to our chassis, the skeleton. Hang a few of them around the house, don’t dust for a few months, and do your best at dissecting a pumpkin, and hey voila!
A recent visit to PAD London, brought me to meet Italian artist Antonio Cagianelli, whose oversized skulls were a reminder of our fascination with death and the symbols we annually decorate our environment with at this time of year.

Antonio tells me, his current project involves, transferring his own three-dimensional creations by using the language of marginality and fragility of young metropolitan communities, Trick or treat anyone?

More info on Antonio:here

Phil runs Corridor with Christian Inkpen more info here:seecorridor.blogspot.com/

]]> http://www.despoke.com/2009/10/30/%e2%80%98halloween%e2%80%99-for-despoke-by-phil-nutley/feed/ 2 Pavillion of Art&Design London from October 14th http://www.despoke.com/2009/10/10/pavillion-of-artdesign-london-from-october-14th/ http://www.despoke.com/2009/10/10/pavillion-of-artdesign-london-from-october-14th/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:21:07 +0000 Mark http://www.despoke.com/?p=796 Berkeley square

Building on the success of its previous two years, Patrick Perrin and Stéphane Custot have expanded DesignArt London to create a new concept, the Pavilion of Art & Design London. The Pavilion of Art & Design London will mirror its elegant Parisian counterpart, the Pavillon des Arts et du Design Paris, now on its 13th year and held in the prestigious Jardin des Tuileries, by encompassing fine art in its repertoire. The London fair, held in Berkeley Square in Mayfair, will run simultaneously with Frieze week, from the 14th to 18th October. During this time, the Pavilion will house an impressive stable of 45 established international exhibitors who represent the leaders in their respective fields of Modern Art and 20th Century Decorative Arts.


Visitors and collectors alike can take in the wide breadth of works of unparalleled quality and innovation, which rival a museum’s collection. Several new exhibitors will join the design panorama this year including Yves Macaux and Anne Autegarden, both from Brussels. Modern art exhibitors will include Hopkins?Custot (Paris), Ben Brown (London), Jacques de la Béraudière (Geneva), Lefèvre Gallery (London) and Richard Nagy (London). Returning galleries to the fair include Cristina Grajales (New York), R 20th Century (New York), Louisa Guinness, Rove Gallery, Adrian Sassoon, Carpenters Workshop and David Gill, all from London, and the Parisian galleries of Yves Gastou, Galerie Italienne, Chahan Gallery, HP Le Studio, Alain Marcelpoil, Pierre Passebon, Clara Scremini, and Rossella Colombari.

One of the highlights of the fair is the Moët Hennessy Prize, which sponsors the donation of the winning
decorative art piece to the prestigious collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. In addition, a judging panel of established figures from the world of art and design will honour two galleries with the title of ‘Best Exhibit’ and ‘Best Stand.’ This year’s fair will also enable an extraordinary collaboration between its charity sponsor, the NSPCC and David Gill Ltd. Designers are producing a range of designed children’s chairs to be sold at the fair with the proceeds donated to the NSPCC.

The originality and importance of the pieces, the carefully curated booths, and the meticulous selection of the galleries and dealers themselves is what generates the high calibre of this fair and verifies the Pavilion of Art & Design London’s reputation as a significant player in the international art and design scene.

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Frieze week to Lure Billonaires With $9 million Bacon Nude:(Bloomberg)

‘I fall in love at first sight with design pieces’ (FT.com)

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