Design is the planned form of material culture, a physical expression – but can this be backwards-engineered? If so, design can become less about solving a problem of physical provisions and instead answer the questions around how we want to live.
In the spirit of affecting societal change through design, our gallery has tasked a multidisciplinary group of designers with the challenge of producing in that mindset – designing objects as political catalysts, not material essentials.
We're thrilled to announce our next exhibition, Anti Chairs – a collaborative call to arms for conceptual design in a material world, featuring new works by Justin Donnelly and Monling Lee of Jumbo, Bradley L. Bowers, Illana Harris Bablau, Chris Wolston, Ellen Pong and Louis Bressolles.
Anti Chairs respond to today’s world – a fractured landscape where tectonic shifts disrupt our daily lives and relentlessly wreak havoc on our society. This showcase displays the art of design over decoration, the pulling of a cultural thread.
| Hours | Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 AM - 6:00 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.
