The Nature Of Things: 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.