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First Picks: The Standout Design Pieces Chosen By The Galleries Themselves

We invite leading galleries to nominate their finest work, beginning with Galerie kreo's B.B.D. console by Martin Szekely, an elegant marriage of marble, crystal and aluminium that elevates the everyday with quiet, timeless luxury.

24 Feb 2012 By Official Bespoke 2 min read
First Picks: The Standout Design Pieces Chosen By The Galleries Themselves

B.B.D Console

by Martin Szekely as presented by Galerie kreo

“Martin Szekely is undoubtedly one the leading designers working today, elegantly navigating the worlds of industrial production and limited edition with equal aesthetics and intellectual consideration for both. The B.B.D. is a classic example of the latter, combining luxury and discretion in a timeless console that brings the most unexpected materials together (marble, crystal, aluminium), to elevate the most expected of forms.”

Yana Peel

Director of Outset

Dandelion

by Harry Bertoia as presented by Todd Merrill

As selected by Caroline Baumann, Associate Director of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Product Hyper Surface II

by Haresh Lalvani as presented by moss

“The pieces by moss, designed by Dr. Haresh Lalvani, based on his decades-long search to unlock the “morphological genome” can’t be anything but compelling, lying as they do at the intersection of design and science, form and mathematics.”

Aric Chen

Curator of Beijing Design Week

Quarts Mirrors

by Study O Portable as presented by Caroline van Hoek

“The Quartz Mirror series by Study O Portable is a subtle yet philosophical series that bridges the primitive and technological through its choice of material, form and ideology.”

Libby Sellers

Director of Gallery Libby Sellers

Amphis Sofa

by Pierre Paulin as presented by Demisch Danant

“Since the Wolfsonian is going French this year, really interested in how this object represents a trajectory of French design.”

Cathy Leff

Director of The Wolfsonian

1951 Bridge Office Chair

by Jean Prouvé as presented by Galerie Patrick Seguin

“It would be perfect in my office behind my black Jacques Adnet desk.”

Sarah Harrelson

Founder & Editorial Director of whitehaus

Octopus Chair

by Lee Sam Woongby as presented by Gallery SEOMI

As selected by George Lindemann, President of the Bass Museum in Miami.

Ebonised Coffee Table

by Joaquim Tenreiro as presented by R 20th Century

“This is my favourite piece because it beautifully expresses the singular vision of a designer with a strong and unique point of view.”

Dennis Freedman

Collector and Creative Director of Barney’s New York

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