Emma Scully Gallery is proud to present ‘Together over time,’ a debut solo exhibition at the intersection of emotion and perception from avant-garde designer Rafael Prieto – Founder and Creative Director of creative studio Savvy – premiering April 6, 2023.
Encompassing furniture, sculpture, and lighting, this amalgamation of nine works born from Prieto’s singular creative vision speaks to the casualties of beauty through the lens of observation. “Going through each day, observantly and present in the natural world,” Prieto says, is the founding principle of this interconnected showcase.
A natural elegance is at play with the materials chosen for these works – wood, glass, stone, ceramic – finding balance in gentleness and strength. From there, it's the placement and arrangement of each piece within the gallery that offers a new kind of spatial language that’s open to interpretation to each viewer. “I see this as a concrete poem or haiku – something for others to engage with and feel connected to, as I do,” says Prieto.
| Hours | Tuesday to Friday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PMSaturday 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.
