Room 15

commissioned unique piece, 101.5 x 147 x 65.5 cm

Dutch industrial designer. He studies at the Academy of Design (Eindhoven); moves away from the minimalist trend and works with humble materials with the purpose of achieving efficiency, sustainability and social responsibility. Part of recycled materials and in 1990 he began his “scrapwood” cabinets. He created a company with the designer Nob Ruijgrok that manufactured all kinds of objects for the home. He also founded a restaurant stocked with his pieces, as well as an art gallery, all in his Eindhoven studio.

Born in Racine (Wisconsin). In 1965 he graduated in Art and Education from the University of Wisconsin in Whitewater, and in 1968 he obtained a master’s degree in painting from Iowa University. His first works are plexiglass constructions using images of clouds. In 1971 he held a large individual exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In 1972 he came into contact with the artist Sol Lewitt, a great source of inspiration. In 1973 he moved to New York and taught at the Tisch Art School, as before at Cornell College in Iowa and at Ohio State University and later at Mount Saint Vincent College in Riverdale (New York). In 1988 he began the stage of his illuminated black paintings, which he showed in 1990 at the Cherry Stone gallery in Wellfleet (Massachusetts). In 2001 he participated in the Florence Biennale and won the Lorenzo il Magnifico painting prize. In 2004 he exhibited his “black paintings” at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In 2006, she starred in the documentary Karen Gunderson: the Black Paintings, directed by Lisa Ades. The continuous transformation of light and the importance of the viewer’s position are basic in his work. The sea, mountains, the moon, flowers and constellations are some of its motifs. His interest in historical episodes is reflected in series such as Kings, where he addresses the rescue of the Jews during World War II. There is his work in the museums of San Francisco and Cleveland.

Born in Schoten (Flanders, Belgium). He lived and worked in Ghent. His work has been divided into three periods: in the early 80s he approached the expressionism of Neue Wilde; At the end of that decade it followed the dominant international trends and in the 90s it evolved into a vigorous and literary style rooted in the Belgian artistic heritage. Together with Philippe Vandenberg, Fik van Gestel and others he is considered a leading representative of New Painting in Belgium. In 1991-2000 he placed himself on the border between the figurative and the non-figurative. In the Magritte tradition, he gives an important role to words; Written signs and images of a symbolic nature often appear in his paintings.

He was born in County Wexford, Ireland, into an aristocratic family. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London from 1898 to 1902. He began painting, but when he settled in Paris in 1907 he became interested in furniture lacquering, which he learned with the Japanese master Seizo Sougarawa. In 1913 he exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and caught the attention of the collector Jacques Doucet, for whom he made the famous Lotus table and the four-panel screen titled Le destin. In 1922 he opened his own store, the Galerie Jean Désert. His proposals move away from the merely decorative and are characterized by their abstraction, simplicity and functionality. Maximum representative of Art Deco, her furniture with chromed steel tubes and glass is highly appreciated. His personal life is very intense: he drives ambulances during World War I in Paris; She was part of the lesbian circles of her time, along with Romaine Brooks, Gabrielle Bloch, Loie Fuller and Natalie Barney, and maintained an intimate relationship with the Romanian architect Jean Badovici, who encouraged her to experiment directly with architecture. In 1926 he designed the famous house E.1027 (France), which aroused the admiration of Le Corbusier and ended up being a cause of conflict between the two. In 1972 the Royal Society of Arts recognized her career as a designer, architect and artist by granting her the distinction of Royal Designer for Industry. There is his work at the Metropolitan and the Victoria & Albert.

Architect and furniture designer born in Liège. Hanka, Horta, Van de Velde and he were the creators of the modernist style. He visited London in 1884 and, fascinated by Morris’s work, became interested in the Arts & Crafts movement. Returning to Belgium, he designed his villa, L’Aube (Liège), and produced works for the Brussels International Exhibition of 1897. He made simple, linear and elegant furniture; He especially liked mahogany and, like Van de Velde, had a predilection for metalwork (iron, brass, bronze and copper). He presented works at the International Exhibitions in London, Paris and Saint Louis. His most famous creations are the Pavillon Bleu restaurant for the Paris exhibition of 1900 and the “Silex” furniture: tables, chairs, bedrooms. He resorted more to asymmetry than his English colleagues and was the inventor of the “combined piece of furniture,” which joins several pieces into one.

Ford was founded by John Sherlock Ford and Henry W. Johnson, in Columbus (Ohio) in 1867, as a chair and armchair manufacturing company. In 1868 the company moved its factory to Michigan City (Indiana); in 1872, to Chicago, changing its name to J. S Ford, Johnson & Company. He made high-quality furniture, especially chairs, armchairs, and sofas, mission-style, the kind of solid furniture that was supposed to equip the Spanish missions in the United States; They reached the entire country. The company went bankrupt in 1913 and was sold.

Born in Turin. Architect, designer and photographer; Its architecture and furniture are famous for their ability to allow occupants to manipulate volumes to their whim. He began his career as an architect in 1930; in the thirties, in collaboration with Vittorio Baudi di Selve, he designed the Società Ippica Torinese building, considered his masterpiece but destroyed in 1960; He broke with the past and the fascist regime and was inspired by Aalto and Mendelsohn. In the sixties and seventies he designed numerous interiors for private homes and various buildings, especially in Turin. In the forties he had started working as an interior designer and furniture designer.

2 tables, 4 chairs, 2 plants (1 artificial, 1 natural)

Born in Śrem (Poland). He studies painting at the current Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, a center where he has taught since 1967 and which he presided over between 1981 and 1987. He also teaches at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 1972 he became involved in the direction of the Akumulatory 2 Gallery (Poznan), a platform for avant-garde artists from Poland and other countries that he promoted until 1990. Between 1991 and 1993 he served as curator of the gallery and collection of the Center for Contemporary Art. from Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. Ascribed to the conceptual movement, he executes installations in which light, sound, drawing, photography and various objects are essential. In 1970 he became interested in word games and created works of a linguistic nature. In 1980 he focused on the deconstruction of myths related to art (concepts of freedom, originality, value…). For him, art is a field of critical analysis from which to dismantle deep-rooted mental patterns and conventions. He also works in performances and is the author of art books. Since 1967 he has exhibited in museums and galleries inside and outside his country and participates in biennials such as the one in Paris (1977); Sydney (1990), Istanbul (1995) and Sao Paulo (2006). In 2010, the exhibition Continuum XXVIII stands out, at the Profile Foundation in Warsaw.