We launched our inaugural collection of furniture on 5 February at Pi Artworks in a group exhibition that places our designs alongside artworks by a cross-generational and international group of contemporary artists.
Curated by Marcelle Joseph, ‘An Ode to Orlando’ reimagined the gallery space as the private home of a fictional art collector living in present day London. Based on Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando, this particular aesthete – a passionate, brilliant and eccentric character who lives and breathes art – navigates fluidly through time and gender, au courant with the latest cultural trends and equally in tune with the past.
Creating a dialogue between contemporary art and artisanal furniture, the exhibition divided the gallery into two areas: a drawing room and a study, representing the twin selves of Orlando as both a man and a woman.
Orlando’s reimagined London residence will be a place of sanctuary and escape, a site that is beyond time as Woolf’s Orlando lives for more than 300 years into modern times without ageing perceptibly. Here, we are forever young.
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