From Paris to New York : 35 years later, a dive into the history of the Neotu gallery, Pioneering French Design of the 80’s

Galerie Gabriel is a Collectible Design Gallery founded by Nancy Gabriel in 2013 in Beirut, Paris, San Francisco and now based in NYC. Year after year, Galerie Gabriel has acquired strong pieces with the aim to find exceptional contents with historical significance in the 20th century. Eclecticism, rarities and authenticity have always been a defining feature of the gallery as Nancy Gabriel has been aiming at showing correspondences and interferences between different movements representing shining moments in modern design history, when daring forces come to construct design culture. Conversations between furniture and objects of different eras and varied geographical locations are well-established. This is the nature of the ‘curated’ selection. Thus the Gallery has collected a large and well-defined selection of modernist pieces from the likes of Jean Royere, Joaquim Tenreiro, Branco&Preto or José Zanine Caldas, as well as icons of 20th-century design from 1900 like Carlo Bugatti, or mid-century modern ones from Max Ingrand, Jean Prouvé, Gio Ponti, Maria Pergay, or Gabriella Crespi among others. The gallery is also presenting rare pieces of 1980s/1990s furniture from star designers Martin Szekely or Garouste & Bonetti. Galerie Gabriel is also involved in developing the works of emerging designers, like George Mohasseb, Ranya Sarakbi and Niko Koronis, Maria Group + Spock Design, Namika Atelier.