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From Libby Sellers [ gallery libby sellers ] …
event> [ serpentine pavilion 2014 ]
venue> serpentine galleries | kensington gardens W2 3XA | lancaster gate, knightsbridge or south kensington tubes | 10a > 6p
info> designed by Smiljan Radić
Chilean architect Smiljan Radić has designed the fourteenth Serpentine Pavilion. A semi-translucent, cylindrical structure that resembles a shell and rests on large quarry stones, this yearos Pavilion occupies 350 square metres of the Serpentine’s lawn and is home to and inspiration for the Park Nights series of events. Open until 19 October.
event> [ galerie kreo london ]
venue> galerie kreo | 14A hay hill W1J 8NZ | | green park tube | tues / sat 10a > 6p
info> Founded by Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, Gallerie Kreo produces shows and original creations by The Most major contemporary designers, operating like a ‘design laboratory “dedicated to research. Opened in September, the London debut is for now a low-key affair, with a small edit of lighting pieces aptly titled ‘A Light Introduction’.
event> [ urban plunge ]
venue> roca london gallery | station court, townmead road SW6 2PY | imperial wharf tube | mon / fri 9a > 5:30p Sat 11a > 5p.
info> Urban Plunge explores the growing urban swimming movement through a series of proposals for river and harbor baths in London, New York and Copenhagen that envisage imaginative new ways to enjoy urban water environments. Curated by Jane Withers for Wonderwater, showcases five architectural interventions for swimming in clean natural waters in the heart of our cities.
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For the period encompassing the London Design Festival and Frieze Art Fair, Gallery Libby Sellers is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Peter Marigold’s Wooden Tables series.
Born in London in 1974, Marigold first studied sculpture at Central St Martins before enrolling in Design Products under Ron Arad at the Royal College of Art in 2004. Marigold’s fine art training, combined with a series of jobs in scenographic design and production – props, models, costumes and sets for theatre and exhibitions – has led to a pluralistic and resourceful approach to furniture design. Designing and making beautiful objects simply and sincerely – often through improvisation and the logic of geometry – is a major impetus for Marigold. Springing from a desire to elucidate and amplify the rationality found in the natural world, much of his work has been an exploration of the phenomena of nature’s form.
grey elipse 1 | 2014 | jesmonite, steel | 80.5 W x 60.5 D x 57 H cms
The tables relate to a much larger story that Marigold began in 2011 with the Wooden Forms. Through these he made a series of vessels using a single small piece of wood as a mould. The process sees one piece of wood pasted with hot wax in order to create an impression of the wood. This action is repeated so as to intuitively build up a form from the numerable wax impressions, creating an object that is both moulded, yet unique. The wax form is then cast into a final sturdier material through one singular movement. As Marigold has said, “The end result is an amalgam of moments. The forms are ‘wooden’ in that they have been created using wood rather than being made of wood. They therefore reference wood as an active verb rather than a monumental noun; the resulting textures are highly animated and not ‘wooden’ at all.”
wooden vase a, 2011 | cast bronze | 33 H x 23 D cms | edition of 3
purple 1, 2014 | cast jesmonite, metal legs | 94 W x 56 D x 52 H cms
All works will be available to purchase exclusively through the gallery.
exhibition> peter marigold
venue> gallery libby sellers | 41-42 berners street | london WlT 3NB
date> 11 september > 31 october 2014
contact> +44 (0)20 3384 8785 | gallery@libbysellers.com
This exhibition is part of the London Design Festival and Icon Design Trail for 2014.
Gallery Libby Sellers was established by the former curator of London’s Design Museum in 2007 to support and promote contemporary design in a gallery context. Commissioning new works and curating a program of evolving selling exhibitions, the gallery has earned a reputation for its critical and concept-led agenda. Recent selling exhibitions have included: The Copper Mirror Series by Hunting & Narud, installations by Anton Alvarez of his Thread Wrapping Machine designs; a solo show of glass designer Paola Petrobelli; a psychogeography-inspired series of works by London-based Clarke & Reilly; the Craftica series of works with FENDI by Italian designers Formafantasma; and the ongoing touring exhibition of the works of legendary British graphic designer Richard Hollis.
above> ‘Silver Oil Can’ by Aldo Bakker for Thomas Eyck, 2005
Silver
Edition of 15
Photography by Erik and Petra Hesmerg
Price: £1,800
‘Silver Pourer’ by Aldo Bakker for Thomas Eyck, 2009
Silver
Edition of 15
Photography by Erik and Petra Hesmerg
Price: £2,640
‘Silver Salt Cellar’ by Aldo Bakker for Thomas Eyck, 2007
Silver, gold plating
Edition of 15
Photography by Erik and Petra Hesmerg
Price: £1,500
please note: these prices include 20% uk vat/sales tax but exclude shipping charges | photography by marten aukes
[ gallery libby sellers ] 41-42 berners street | london WlT 3NB | +44 (0)20 3384 8785 | gallery@libbysellers.com | hours> tuesday > friday 11 > 6 | saturday 11 > 4
billingsgate chess set | julia lohmann and gero grundmann | bone, silver, paper | unique piece | 2012 | photography by petr krejci | price: £3,360
Gallery Libby Sellers was established by the former curator of London’s Design Museum in 2007 to support and promote contemporary design in a gallery context. Commissioning new works and curating a program of evolving selling exhibitions, the gallery has earned a reputation for its critical and concept-led agenda. Recent selling exhibitions have included: The Copper Mirror Series by Hunting & Narud, installations by Anton Alvarez of his Thread Wrapping Machine designs; a solo show of glass designer Paola Petrobelli; a psychogeography-inspired series of works by London-based Clarke & Reilly; the Craftica series of works with FENDI by Italian designers Formafantasma; and the ongoing touring exhibition of the works of legendary British graphic designer Richard Hollis.
log chess set | peter marigold | single branch, plywood, graphite | open series | 2012 / photography courtesy peter marigold | price: £1,800
slice chess set | simon hasan | patinated brass, screen-printed leather, hot-rolled steel plate, brass fittings | edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof | 2012 | photography courtesy simon hasan | price: £8,400
please note: these prices include 20% uk vat/sales tax but exclude shipping charges | photography by marten aukes
[ gallery libby sellers ] 41-42 berners street | london WlT 3NB | +44 (0)20 3384 8785 | gallery@libbysellers.com | hours> tuesday > friday 11 > 6 | saturday 11 > 4
Gallery Libby Sellers was established by the former curator of London’s Design Museum in 2007 to support and promote contemporary design in a gallery context. Commissioning new works and curating a program of evolving selling exhibitions, the gallery has earned a reputation for its critical and concept-led agenda. Recent selling exhibitions have included: The Copper Mirror Series by Hunting & Narud, installations by Anton Alvarez of his Thread Wrapping Machine designs; a solo show of glass designer Paola Petrobelli; a psychogeography-inspired series of works by London-based Clarke & Reilly; the Craftica series of works with FENDI by Italian designers Formafantasma; and the ongoing touring exhibition of the works of legendary British graphic designer Richard Hollis.
above> ‘Copper Mixing Bowl’ by Aldo Bakker for Thomas Eyck, 2009-2010
Copper | Edition of 15
Price: £2,100
‘Copper Soy Pourer’ by Aldo Bakker for Thomas Eyck, 2009-2010
Copper & silver | Edition of 15
Price: £3,300
‘Copper Watering Can’ by Aldo Bakker for Thomas Eyck, 2009-2010
Copper | Edition of 15
Price: £2,100
please note: these prices include 20% uk vat/sales tax but exclude shipping charges | photography by marten aukes
[ gallery libby sellers ] 41-42 berners street | london WlT 3NB | +44 (0)20 3384 8785 | gallery@libbysellers.com | hours> tuesday > friday 11 > 6 | saturday 11 > 4
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Please don’t miss your chance to visit the stunning exhibition ‘8 Chairs‘ by Clarke & Reilly at Gallery Libby Sellers, closing on Friday, April 26th. The poetic travelogue details the plight and fate of eight specially sourced chairs as they made their way from the designers’ studio, to Peckham then California, and back to London again.
Describing their style as ‘unashamedly romantic and tirelessly imaginative’, Clarke & Reilly are known for applying an original persepctive to ‘lost’ pieces of furniture using narrative, historical knowledge, craftsmanship and a rarified sense of colour to redefine the work. ‘8 Chairs’ exemplifies this reverent attitude towards design as each of the chairs, selected to represent a specific character in the artists’ minds, has been reinvented, often using period and bespoke fabrics. The redefined forms were then installed on the rooftop of a Peckham building to weather the icy winter before being transported to the scorching Californian desert of 99 Palms. The consequences of such extremes, all documented through film and photography, are displayed in the Gallery. On their return, each chair underwent their own final process, informed by their individual response to the whole experience.
Clarke & Reilly – otherwise known as David Grocott and Bridget Dwyer (b. 1964, 1967) – have been collaborating as an artist duo since 2005. Bringing together their backgrounds in fashion (Dwyer) and antique furniture (Grocott), they create unique objects that convey their nostalgic and slightly eccentric aesthetic. Their works are in collections worldwide, and they recently exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time. They currently live between London and Los Angeles.
To complement the experiential nature of the exhibition, and to try to capture the extreme conditions endured by the chairs, Clarke & Reilly have worked with leading perfumer Azzi Glasser to create a signature scent for the exhibition. In researching the base notes for her scent, Glasser drew heavily on the project information given to her by the designers but she also spent time with the chairs on their return to London – getting an understanding of the environments in which they had been placed and the consequences these locations had on the fabric, smell and structure of each chair. Such partnerships and emphasis on the sensorial side of our built environment are essential to Clarke & Reilly. All works are available for sale through Gallery Libby Sellers.
Scent in collaboration with Azzi Glasser
Polaroid images by Laurence Passera
Film by Billy Boyd Cape
Hours: Tuesday > Friday 11 > 6 | Saturday 11 > 4

Gallery Libby Sellers
41-42 berners street | london WlT 3NB
+44 (0)20 3384 8785 | gallery@libbysellers.com
until 28 february 2013 | london | click > enlarge
Initially conceived in collaboration with luxury goods house Fendi for Design Miami/Basel 2012, Craftica is a visual and tactile investigation into the diversity and origins of leather through a collection of handmade stools, lights, vessels and tools.
As Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi, the Italian-born duo behind Formafantasma, have said, “the design is driven by the symbolic connotations of leather, a material that, more than any other, represents the complex relationship between humans and nature. Leather has the ability to evoke almost ancestral memories of when nature was hunted to produce food, tools and protection for the body. Searching underneath and above the sea, from the vegetal to the animal world, the installation offers a holistic view on leather as a material.”
In creating the series, Formafantasma merged their own willful primitivism with Fendi’s time-honoured craftsmanship and rich material resources. Alongside traditional leathers, the works have been made from vegetal dried fish skins (sourced from a food factory in Iceland), oxidized metal, glass, wood and other natural materials such as bones, shells and cow bladders. The resulting effect is a tactile, pre-industrial and glamorous range that Silvia Fendi has described as “experimentation at its best.”
A selection from Formafantasma’s earlier works, including Botanica, Moulding Tradition and Colony will also be on view. All pieces will be available to purchase exclusively through the gallery.
Hours: Tuesday > Friday 11 > 6 | Saturday 11 > 4

Gallery Libby Sellers
41-42 berners street | london WlT 3NB
+44 (0)20 3384 8785 | gallery@libbysellers.com
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Gallery Libby Sellers is showing a series of hand woven carpet designs by the French art and design duo M/M (Paris). Each in an edition of 12 +2 APs, the four carpets act like a condensed catalogue – or Carpetalogue – for M/M’s practice.
Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak originally established M/M (Paris) as a graphic design studio in 1992. Their close associations with the music, fashion and art worlds have led to their becoming one of the most distinctive and acclaimed creative voices of their generation, within graphic design and beyond. Their longstanding creative clients and collaborators include fashion designers Yohji Yamamoto, Givenchy and Balenciaga; musicians such as Björk, Madonna, The Micronauts and Kanye West; and artists including Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Sarah Morris, and Philippe Parreno + Pierre Huyghe, with whom they also designed the Etienne Marcel Café in Paris in 2001. M/M’s work is held in the public collections of Tate Modern in London, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
The gallery is also hosting a special M/M (Paris) pop-up shop stocking a curated selection of their other works, including their new book, M to M of M/M (Paris), written by Emily King, designed by Graphic Thought Facility, with a foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist and published by Thames & Hudson. We are one of the few stockists of this book right now, so best place your orders early.
Regular opening hours: tuesday > friday 11a > 6p saturday 11a > 4p
Fore further information: gallery@libbysellers.com or +44 (0)20 3384 8785
venue: gallery libby sellers | 41-42 berners street | london WlT 3nb
event> [ urban plunge ]
