For her first New York City show, up-and-coming gallerist Emma Scully commissioned eight disparate voices across the world to digitally design exclusive pieces of furniture, lighting and decor, with two caveats: the pieces would only be produced using cast iron and the production would be handled by Scully herself with the help of the O.K Foundry – a fourth-generation foundry in Virginia.
By materializing digital files into cast iron – the quintessential symbol of the 19th-century industrial revolution – Emma marries the material origins of industrial making to the current digital hyper-connectivity of design ideas.
The Cast Iron collection is presented in a quintessential Upper East Side art gallery which Emma reimagined with the help of Brooklyn-based studio Wallpaper Projects, who applied their Patina Study N1 on the primary gallery wall, creating an intriguing conversation between the objects and their surrounding environment.
| Hours | Wednesday to Friday10:00 AM - 6:00 PM; Saturday; 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
| Venue | Emma Scully Gallery |
| Type | Design Exhibition |
| Duration | 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM |
| City | New York City |
About
Emma Scully Gallery
Emma Scully Gallery champions cutting edge contemporary collectible design. Located in a 19th Century townhouse on the Upper East Side, we present challenging work in a rich historic context. We represent and support the work of groundbreaking living artists, designers, and craftspeople. Critical to the gallery’s mission is the exhibition program where new work is commissioned around conceptual themes. This intellectual backbone of our collection, resulting from years of exhibition, is the question of how to deal with the challenges of creating for the today’s material society: the landscape of superabundance, the ecological cost of overproduction and the shift from the physical to the digital world. In promoting equity the gallery recognizes the need to facilitate production in order to support the broadest range of talent in the design community. The gallery therefore acts as manufacturer for a portion of the collection work.
