michael young

gallery all presents the world premierw of the my collection, a new body of work by the esteemed british hong kong product design studio, michael young. this new collection was commissioned by gallery all of los angeles and beijing and will be seen for the first time ever at the design miami 2018 fair. the exhibition will be on view from 5 december – 9 december 2018 at miami beach (meridian avenue & 19th street).

all the work in the collection will be composed of polished stainless steel with white enamel surfaces. each piece consists of a cluster of hollow metal extrusions capped at each end and covered with enamel.

“the concept came in two ways,” young says. a while back, i had worked with cloisonné in northern china and began to look at how patterns and colours came together and how metal could be shaped to create divisions of form. some of my earlier attempts were inspired by oil on water and the natural patterns generated by this when taken in a snapshot. for gallery all , we looked at these in a new way by self-generating forms created by the computer and then extracted in two-dimensional slices to take the pattern from.”

“we had designed various functional forms into seating, consoles and tables,” he says. “next we applied these patterns so they would then be twisted into 3 dimensions and extruded vertically. in production you cannot colour the vertical surfaces of the pieces, so we played with making a stunning polished edge ”

“the metal is moulded around huge clay forms, and the internal structure is created over several weeks. it is completely artisanal, and there is no other way to produce this than with historical methods combined with contemporary craft techniques”