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A Solomon installation in a Fox Nahem project.
Over the last decade Maison Gerard, long considered one of the city’s premier sources of Art Deco furniture, has developed relationships with dozens of contemporary designers and artists from around the world. In so doing, the gallery has broadened its reputation—and is now as well known for its expertly curated contemporary design as its impressive inventory of museum quality antiques.
Common to the work of gallery’s designers and artists (as well as to the work of Art Deco titans) is an emphasis on meticulous craftsmanship and materials of the finest quality. These standards are evident whether in the work of Italian architect Achille Salvagni, whose symphonies of onyx, bronze, and parchment are unlike anything produced in decades, or of Michael Coffey, whose “geolithic” carvings are a grand reimaging of nouveau, which in their scale, beauty, and natural qualities evince the sublime. Or, even, in the work of Kiko Lopez, an American ex-pat and one of the last artisans working in églomisé, a silver applique traditional to artisans of the south of France. Lopez has breathed life into the all-but-forgotten technique, jettisoning traditional patterns for marvelous abstractions, all of which call to mind developments in the visual as well as the decorative arts.
These are but a few of the artists the gallery commissions to execute bespoke projects—work tailored to meet the demands of each space, the desires of each client. We are proud to present this review—a few projects in which the gallery’s contemporary artists have played a part.
CAROL EGAN
A project from MR Architecture + Decor.
Photo by Jean-François Jaussaud, from Caroline Sarkozy's Living in Style: Paris
ACHILLE SALVAGNI
Above: A project by Amy Lau Design, as featured in AD. Photograph by Jason Schmidt.
Right: Sawyer-Berson's booth at the Kips Bay Show House, 2016.
MR ARCHITECTURE + DECOR
A project by Monique Gibson Interior Design, featured in AD. Photograph by William Abranowicz.
WILLIAM T. GEORGIS
MICHAEL COFFEY
Amy Lau Design's booth at Salon, 2017.
MARC BANKOWSKY
Above: A project by Bennett Leifer Interiors in AD. Photograph by Marco Ricca.
Left: Photograph by Jean-François Jaussaud.
PETER LANE
A piece originally featured in the exhibition One Way: Peter Marino at the Bass Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida, 2014/2015.
Peter Lane's booth at Collective Design, 2017.
MATTHEW SOLOMON
A Matthew Solomon installation in a Fox Namhem project.
Above: A project by MR Architecture + Decor.
Left: A project by Bennett Leifer Interiors in AD.Photograph by Marco Ricca.
AYALA SERFATY
A project by Carol Egan Interiors.
FRANCK CHARTRAIN
KIKO LOPEZ
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