UNNO Gallery presents its first collaboration with renowned designer Mark Grattan, debuting THICK at Milano Design Week 2024. Mark Grattan, celebrated for his distinctive design, with his last work reveals a deep connection with Mexico and Latin American culture.
The collection's genesis lies in a long-time desire to collaborate with the gallery and a simple promise. The inspiration stemmed from a small wall mounted cabinet Mark designed and built for his NYC apartment, sparking the conceptual evolution of the entire collection.
Grattan introduces an unexpected playful and animated aesthetic, deviating from his usual serious and rigid methodology in his past work. The pieces feature a unique visual elasticity of stretching forms, simple, but compelling, yet still maintaining his signature details such as repetition, rounded edge profiles and chrome details. The overall outline of the work introduces a new dimension, characterized by a cheerful and lively quality.
The collection, meticulously crafted in his New York Studio, showcases Grattan's innovative hands-on execution of curved wood forms and complex joinery. The resulting forms are high gloss lacquered, presenting a monolithic yet organic appearance.
| Hours | Friday 12th - Monday 15th 10:00 AM - 6:00 PMTuesday 16th 10:00 AM - 12:00 AM; Wednesday 17th - Saturday 20th 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| Venue | Via Palermo 8 |
| Type | Exhibition |
| Duration | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| City | Milan |
About
UNNO Gallery
UNNO is the first digital design gallery of contemporary Latin American design, launched on February 2021. The creative idea behind this project - enabled by the kaleidoscopic synergy of Maria Dolores Uribe and Laura Abe Vettoretti, their founders - is to develop a new way of presenting Latin American art and design. All the pieces under UNNO gallery pay homage to Latin American culture: the coarse visual language inherited by their forefathers resulting in design pureness; the connection between time, space, and art, leading to pieces that speak of spatial and everlasting memories; historical, essential tremors and the perfection of executing pure poetry.
