Fur Mirrors

DUPLEX presents UTOPIA: an exhibition that celebrates the spirit of the second postwar Italian Design Revolution. On view now at the Duplex Gallery @ The Mill Building Williamsburg. “The fantastic achievement of Italian Design is the incredibly rich cultural transfer into mass products. The influence of these pieces in the pop culture is incommensurable; I like to make a parallel with the Beatles in popular music. Perhaps, in our modern advanced digitalized democracies, design has lost a bit of its ingenuity and the utopic world is no longer being sought. I want this exhibit to be a tribute to the original vision that permeated the early years of Italian design.” The exhibition feat selection of iconic pieces, with a focus on Acerbis: the “Free System” sofa and “Napoleone” table by Claudio Salocchi, “Due Più” chairs and “Storet” chests by Nanda Vigo and the “Florian”folding table by Vico Magistretti. These, along with cc-tapis rug designed by the Georgian duo “Rooms Studio”, an original 1958 Luigi Caccia Dominioni “Catilina...

THE LAKE I by SI VIS PACEM Wood, Coyote Fur 50" L x 72" H x 8" D A reflective sculpture framed in wild softness. This irregular mirror is surrounded by a thick border upholstered...

THE LAKE II by SI VIS PACEM Wood, Coyote Fur 40" L x 42" H x 4.5" D A reflective sculpture framed in wild softness. This irregular mirror is surrounded by a thick border upholster...

Large hall mirror with cow horn decorations and console table, Austria 1870 A great wall mirror with console table from a noble villa in the Austri...

DUPLEX presents UTOPIA: an exhibition that celebrates the spirit of the second postwar Italian Design Revolution. On view now at the Duplex Gallery @ The Mill Building Williamsburg. “The fantastic achievement of Italian Design is the incredibly rich cultural transfer into mass products. The influence of these pieces in the pop culture is incommensurable; I like to make a parallel with the Beatles in popular music. Perhaps, in our modern advanced digitalized democracies, design has lost a bit of its ingenuity and the utopic world is no longer being sought. I want this exhibit to be a tribute to the original vision that permeated the early years of Italian design.” The exhibition feat selection of iconic pieces, with a focus on Acerbis: the “Free System” sofa...