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Chatsworth House celebrates its ongoing legacy in a new exhibition
Inside Chatsworth House, that majestic marvel situated in England’s Peak District National Park, there is a staggering art collection that traces back to ancient Roman and Egyptian sculptures. Presented in partnership with Friedman Benda Gallery and the support of Salon 94 Design and Adrian Sassoon galleries, Mirror Mirror: Reflections on Design at Chatsworth (on view in the home and garden through October 1), sheds light on the abode’s rich and continuously evolving cultural legacy through the works of 16 artists and designers.
The lineup of talents—Ini Archibong, Michael Anastassiades, Wendell Castle, Andile Dyalvane, Ndidi Ekubia, Najla El Zein, Formafantasma, Joris Laarman, Max Lamb, Fernando Laposse, Jay Sae Jung Oh, Samuel Ross, Chris Schanck, Ettore Sottsass, Faye Toogood, and Joseph Walsh—was cocurated by historian and writer Glenn Adamson. While the library is accentuated by Anastassiades’s bamboo and pooled metal light fixtures, for instance, the State Bedchamber stars Laposse’s agave and sisal armchair and cabinet.
Rafael Prieto makes solo debut at Emma Scully Gallery
As founder and creative director of the New York– and Mexico City–based design agency Savvy Studio, Rafael Prieto has designed everything from brand identities to interiors to books. Together Over Time (through June 3), his inaugural solo exhibition at Emma Scully Gallery on New York’s Upper East Side, reveals yet another dimension. Natural beauty and collaboration are the unifying themes behind the nine pieces of furniture, sculpture, and lighting, crafted out of materials like cast glass, stone, wood, raw organic cotton, and ceramic inlays courtesy of Atelier Lips. The collection includes a coffee table and two side tables—all produced with the gallery—as well as a linen Marrow light from Prieto’s ongoing project with artist Loup Sarion and an upholstered bench and two stools that extend a furniture collection with Spoliâ. Completing the series are a sculptural pedestal and seemingly floating lamp made with artist and fashion designer Kritika Manchanda that is gracefully anchored by a rope-wrapped stone.
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Christopher Farr Cloth partners with Sotheby’s
This season, attendees of Sotheby’s Classic Design sales and exhibitions will be treated to captivating textile vignettes. In its New York, Paris, and London salerooms, Sotheby’s will showcase glorious furniture and decorative arts from the 17th through 19th centuries against the vibrant backdrop of Christopher Farr rugs and wall coverings. The pieces, developed in collaboration with the estates of Anni Albers and Gunta Stölzl (the German artist who played a pioneering role in the Bauhaus—and who Albers studied weaving under), include Stölzl’s hand-knotted, hand-spun wool 675 rug. Its blocks of bright color are juxtaposed with Child’s Check, a woven wallpaper from Christopher Farr’s Anni Albers collection, that reimagines a simple Albers sketch from 1928 in a profusion of blue and yellow. The collaboration culminates at the auction house’s Story Cafe in London, where the textile maker has revamped the interiors in colorful graphic prints through the summer.
The Chanakya workshop in Mumbai, India. Photo: Sahiba Chawdhary c/o Chanakya School of Craft
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