Mayfair goes Modern
Sebastian + Barquet, a three-year old design gallery based in New York and Chelsea, is opening a new gallery showing museum quality pieces in Mayfair next month, the first in London to focus on international modernism from the 1940s to the 1960s. Its opening exhibition is dedicated to American modernist design and is curated by celebrated architect Eric Parry.
After a succesful exhibition at Design Basel in June, Sebastian + Barquet's inaugural exhibition entitled "New Hope" - in reference to an area of Pennsylvania where many of the American Modernist designers lived and worked - will feature seminal works by George Nakashima, one of the leaders of the 20th century American Craft movement.
The coming year's programme of five exhibitions includes work by the Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi, and the French architect and designer, Jean Prouvé.
This gallery is hoping to take advantage of the growing interest in collecting design as an investment. Helene Murphy, director of Sebastian + Barquet London, said: "More and more people are starting to collect design like they collect art."
A walnut coffee table by Philip Lloyd Powell, who studied under George Nakashima, will be on display, as well as work by Paul Evans (pictured right: sculpted front sideboard in lacquered and gilt steel, wood and slate, 1969, by Paul Evans), who was mentored by Lloyd Powell.
Sebastian + Barquet
Address: 19 Bruton Place, London, W1J 6LZ,
Tel: 020 7495 8988
www.sebastianbarquetlondon.com
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