The Nature Of Things: Mayfair

9 February - 4 April 2024
  • The assumption that pieces of collectible design are solely made possible by human designers is disrupted by artists using natural growth patterns and photosynthesis as their mediums. Such practices ask us to re-consider The Nature Of Things. This poetic statement defined our curation at Design Miami 2023 and we’re delighted to bring an iteration of this presentation to our gallery in Mayfair.

    Many have fortified the tradition of understanding things as animate and mutable. Doing so, assigns materiality with agency and renders it as an active participant in its own making while being embedded with interior dramas of creativity, fissure and chance.

     

    These interior dramas form the basis of our dynamic slow design collection, they are marked by the fact that we are bound to and part of this tactile and lively material world. This presentation brings together the gallery’s master craftspeople and innovative designers whose practices engage with the narratives and changes of matter. Such practices, we believe, offer an alternative materialism to the mass-consumptive kind, typically characterised by rapid gain and disposal. Each of these are enclosed with specific histories, here materiality is a thing in flux, emerging through forms, furniture pieces and objects. 

     

    ‘The Nature Of Things’ seeks to witness sublime human and botanical craftsmanship. Each of the works steeped in their manifold histories, created with nature as a technology of itself, combined with that of hand or machine making. All are exceptionally crafted and thoughtfully conceived. To be in contact with them, is to encounter things that move beyond the thresholds of either natural or cultural.

  • WORKS
    • Lin Fanglu, She's Landscape, 2023
      Lin Fanglu, She's Landscape, 2023
    • Lin Fanglu, She's Spindrift no.1, 2022
      Lin Fanglu, She's Spindrift no.1, 2022
    • Lin Fanglu, She's Tingling No.2, 2022
      Lin Fanglu, She's Tingling No.2, 2022
    • Marc Fish, Ethereal Console, 2023
      Marc Fish, Ethereal Console, 2023
    • Marc Fish, Ethereal Desk, 2023
      Marc Fish, Ethereal Desk, 2023
    • Marc Fish, Ethereal Chair, 2023
      Marc Fish, Ethereal Chair, 2023
    • Christopher Kurtz, Linenfold Vanity III, 2023
      Christopher Kurtz, Linenfold Vanity III, 2023
    • Angela Damman, Eta Chandelier, 2023
      Angela Damman, Eta Chandelier, 2023
    • Luke Fuller Accretion, 2022 Stoneware, porcelain 67 H x 59 W x 51 D cm 26.34 H x 23.22 W x 20 D In
      Luke Fuller
      Accretion, 2022
      Stoneware, porcelain
      67 H x 59 W x 51 D cm
      26.34 H x 23.22 W x 20 D In
    • Gareth Neal Hack Chair III (blonde), 2022 English Oak 90 H x 56.5 W x 40 D cm 35.4 H x 22 W x 15.7 D in
      Gareth Neal
      Hack Chair III (blonde), 2022
      English Oak
      90 H x 56.5 W x 40 D cm
      35.4 H x 22 W x 15.7 D in
    • Gareth Neal Grace (Large), 2023 Natural Sand 90 H x 80 W x 32.3 D cm / 35.4 H x 31.4 W x 12.7 D in
      Gareth Neal
      Grace (Large), 2023
      Natural Sand
      90 H x 80 W x 32.3 D cm /
      35.4 H x 31.4 W x 12.7 D in
    • Gareth Neal, Twisted Pair, Natural, 2023
      Gareth Neal, Twisted Pair, Natural, 2023
    • Aneta Regel, Volcanic Totem 9, 2022
      Aneta Regel, Volcanic Totem 9, 2022
    • Aneta Regel, She Has a Blue Leg, 2022
      Aneta Regel, She Has a Blue Leg, 2022
    • Arko Untitled, 2023 Rice straw 124 H x 110 W x 12 D cm / 48.8 H x 43.3 W x 4.7 D in 
      Arko
      Untitled, 2023
      Rice straw
      124 H x 110 W x 12 D cm /
      48.8 H x 43.3 W x 4.7 D in 
    • Diana Scherer, Exercises in Rootsystem Domestication II, 2020
      Diana Scherer, Exercises in Rootsystem Domestication II, 2020
    • Ernst Gamperl, 69/2019//80, 2023
      Ernst Gamperl, 69/2019//80, 2023
    • Ernst Gamperl, 64/2021//180, 2023
      Ernst Gamperl, 64/2021//180, 2023
    • Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer, Flecked Signature, Lineation, 2023
      Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer, Flecked Signature, Lineation, 2023
    • Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer Dark Swimmer I, 2023 Ink and watercolour on Japanese mulberry paper, painted wood, adhesive. Framed. Framed dimensions 97 H x 53 W x 16 D cm 38.1 H x 20.8 W x 6.3 D in
      Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer
      Dark Swimmer I, 2023
      Ink and watercolour on Japanese mulberry paper, painted wood, adhesive. Framed.
      Framed dimensions
      97 H x 53 W x 16 D cm
      38.1 H x 20.8 W x 6.3 D in
    • Max Bainbridge / Forest+Found Copse, 2022 Maple wood & white pigment 75 H x 60 W x 20 D cm / 29.5 H x 23.6 W x 7.8 D in
      Max Bainbridge / Forest+Found
      Copse, 2022
      Maple wood & white pigment
      75 H x 60 W x 20 D cm /
      29.5 H x 23.6 W x 7.8 D in
    • Julian Watts, Tree, 2021
      Julian Watts, Tree, 2021
    • Julian Watts Free Standing 2, 2023 Walnut 129 H x 33 W x 13 D cm / 51 H x 13 W x 13 D in
      Julian Watts
      Free Standing 2, 2023
      Walnut
      129 H x 33 W x 13 D cm /
      51 H x 13 W x 13 D in
    • Julian Watts, Free Standing 3, 2023
      Julian Watts, Free Standing 3, 2023
    • Julian Watts, Free Standing 4, 2023
      Julian Watts, Free Standing 4, 2023
    • Julian Watts, Free Standing 5, 2023
      Julian Watts, Free Standing 5, 2023
    • Julian Watts, Free Standing 7, 2023
      Julian Watts, Free Standing 7, 2023
    • Adi Toch, Autumn Urns (short), 2023
      Adi Toch, Autumn Urns (short), 2023
    • Adi Toch Autumn Urns (tall), 2023 Copper Buried in London for 2 months close to an underground bunker 24 H x 20 dia cm / 9.4 H x 7.9 dia in
      Adi Toch
      Autumn Urns (tall), 2023
      Copper
      Buried in London for 2 months close to an underground bunker
      24 H x 20 dia cm /
      9.4 H x 7.9 dia in
    • Adi Toch, Shrouded, 2023
      Adi Toch, Shrouded, 2023
    • Adi Toch Shrouded, 2022/2023 Silver plated copper alloy Buried in London for 13 months Lost and then found 10 H x 20 W x 20 D cm / 3.9 H x 7.8 W x 7.8 D in
      Adi Toch
      Shrouded, 2022/2023
      Silver plated copper alloy
      Buried in London for 13 months
      Lost and then found
      10 H x 20 W x 20 D cm /
      3.9 H x 7.8 W x 7.8 D in