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Exhibition Review: Erwan Boulloud: Touching Time, at Twenty First Gallery

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Craft meets cosmos in the designer’s first solo U.S. show in six years March 21 - May 16, 2025 Twenty First Gallery, New York Exhibition Design by Jean de Piépape. Photograph: my own On a rainy April afternoon, the dull grey streets of New York quickly fade away the moment I step through the doors of Twenty First Gallery in Tribeca and am immediately transported to another realm. From March 21 to May 16, Erwan Boulloud presents his first solo exhibition in the United States since 2019. Known for its high-calibre collectible design, the gallery brings together 15 of Boulloud’s most recent creations – exploring, developing and refining concepts and motifs that have become central themes in his body of work. These include astronomical phenomena, such as the origins of creation, the expansion of the universe and solar system, microscopic images of cells and medieval jewellery, coming together in pieces which seem both ephemeral and eternal.  The most striking aspect of the space, ...
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Exhibition Review: Simple Furniture and All That: Gerald Summers and the 1930s Plywood Renaissance in London

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Yep, I am posting this after the exhibition has finished...  R & Company’s new exhibition quietly illustrates the lasting appeal of simplicity January 24 - April 11, 2025 R & Company, New York Photograph: my own Coinciding with the release of the highly anticipated 2024 publication Gerald Summers & Marjorie Butcher: Makers of Simple Furniture, 1931-1940, by design historian and leading scholar on the subject, Martha Deese, this exhibition offers a timely exploration of the designs discussed in the book, alongside works by Breuer - the introductory wall text pithily asserting that “there were nearly as many threads connecting Summers with Breuer as the seven sheets of plywood which formed his iconic and organic bent plywood armchair.” Presented against a gentle backdrop of forest green walls, Summers' armchair sits elevated on a raised platform, along with three other plywood creations: a towel horse, a chaise longue and a stackable dining chair. In the middle of the sp...
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