February 2012
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New work by Jacques Jarrige "Meanders"
Just installed today this cabinet with sculpted doors: a new work out of Jacques Jarrige’s workshop.
The new body of work “Meanders” will be part of an exhibition at Valerie Goodman Gallery opening May 15, 2012
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January 2012
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November 2011
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Jarrige in the Press
Just received the November issue of IDEAT: special Germany. On Page 225 an article on the apartment of a gallery owner Karena Schuessler . In the kitchen/Dining room a dining table by Jacques Jarrige with chairs and light by Jean Prouve.
September 2011
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Jacques Jarrige mobiles
While in Paris I spent time with Jacques Jarrige looking at upcoming works which I will be showing in my gallery next year. I will also be showing his found wood mobiles that are stunning.
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Back From Paris
Just came back from Paris, a week packed with events and encounters.
Day One
First stop leaving Charles De Gaulle Airport was lunch at the new Opera Garnier restaurant. Perfect start: I specially enjoyed in this bright new decor the privacy that each table has and each dish was excellent.
From there I went to le Petit Palais to see the exhibit L’oeil en Eventail, the photographs of...
July 2011
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New Works by Jacques Jarrige
Valerie Goodman Gallery is presenting new works by Jacques Jarrige
See the table and console decorated by Swarovsky with Crystal dust for an art fair in Paris earlier this Spring.
The table and console are available at Valerie Goodman Gallery in custom size and finishes. Great details with large drawers slidiing both ways. Fun and beautiful design
April 2011
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Jacques Jarrige Chandelier at Kips Bay Show House
Fiori Chandelier by Jacques Jarrige. House Beautiful features it in the dining room by Matthew Smyth at Kips Bay Show house 2011. The chandelier is available at Valerie Goodman Gallery
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Jacques Jarrige featured in World of Interiors
of Watch in World of Interiors May2011 issue page 208 -217 ”Shades of Gray” photos of the newly re-decorated Paris apartment of Eileen Gray by Marie-France Boyer.
Among pieces by Jean Michel Frank, Jacques Adnet, Diego Giacometti you can see a black lacquer dining table by Jacques Jarrige who is represented in New York by Valerie Goodman Gallery. A similar table is available at the...
March 2011
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Stephane Parmentier
I recently met a furniture artist in Paris who designed a very interesting collection of accent pieces.
Lava stone stools / coffee tables and Wood and statuary Marble stools / coffee tables.
Stephane Parmentier started his career in fashion business. After having worked for Lanvin, Hervé Léger and Karl Lagerfeld, he has been director of the women’s ready-to-wear section for Givenchy and artistic...
February 2011
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Salvaged Wood and Great Design
I recently came back from Paris where I met an interesting group of designers who create beautiful pieces from salvaged mahogany window frames and have a great story. The windows came from all kinds of properties in France and became through a sorting, cleaning and cutting process new material.
What happens is that the modern furniture has a soul inherited from old memories. Tru is a truly...
January 2011
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New Year, new projects
2010 was an exciting year in which I opened a new gallery in New York and had the honor of showcasing the work of Eric Schmitt and Jacques Jarrige. Besides attracting the attention of decorators and collectors their work unexpectedly opened new connections.
Daniel Mack, about whom I wrote earlier in this blog came by and later I had the great pleasure of meeting design legend Paul Mathieu who...
December 2010
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Design Miami 2010
Design Miami
Visiting the exhibits of Art Basel and Design Miami was a wonderful experience. I started with Design Miami since my own gallery presents 20th Century and Contemporary artist works in furniture and lighting.
Design Miami 2010 was very well conceived and the individual presentations by galleries were all very good. A good number of the galleries were from Paris, two presenting...
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Villa Kérylos Beaulieu-sur-Mer
I just returned from the South of France where among other amazing sites I visited the villa Kerylos built between 1902 and 1908 by Théodor Reinach on the Cote d’Azur village of Beaulieu. The planning of the villa alone took architect Emmanuel Pontremoli 6 years including 2 years of research in Greece and Italy.
Théodor Reinach’s vision was to build a Greacian villa on the...
November 2010
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Jacksons Booth at Modernism
Last Monday I visited Modernism at the Park Avenue Armory.
The exhibition looked very good overall but to me the most attractive booth was Jacksons
Jacksons specializes in the best of Scandinavian and international vintage design 1900 - 2000 with its main focus on Scandinavian classics.
The collection really stands out, the choice of pieces is coherent and always of great quality.
Jacksons has a...
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Printed Matter annual art book fair
I visited PS1 this weekend and was amazed by the huge crowd this event draws. It’s great to see so many art books and so many people interested. I didn’t have the time to see everything but didn’t miss Christophe Boutin’s One Star Press booth representing artist Nathan Calder and his bookshelve
One Star Press asks their artists to design a book shelve when their book is published and here is...
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Opening of Jacques Jarrige Exhibition
The opening was a great event to honor the work of Jacques Jarrige mixing other artists and friends.
The feedback so far is good: the work really stands out at a time when people crave for the handmade tactile and spiritual feel.
I visited on Friday the Kips Bay Show house, a yearly event to support the Boys and Girls Club
and I was once again struck with the amazing energy and talent displayed as...
October 2010
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More on Jacques Jarrige
Claire le Douaron contacted me from Paris because she had taken pictures of Jacques and his creations at another workshop where he works located in a psychiatric hospital outside of Paris. Jarrige and another artist design and produce pieces with patients, Claire is a doctor at the hospital.
They met when she had a little time between two patients. She got intrigued by a sign she saw downstairs...
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Installing the show part 2
Jacques Jarrige tables have arrived and we are installing today:
Cloud is a series of cocktail tables with variations of colors and sizes: White lacquer and Anis, White and Coral, Black and Coral. They work alone or as a group
Osselet (small bones) is a series of 6 hand sculpted stools that are very comfortable in addition to having an irresistible form. They do look like a tooth
The space is...
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Installing The Show....
The tension rises: I am preparing for the opening of the Jacques Jarrige exhibition next week at my gallery http://www.valeriegoodmangallery.com . Yesterday Michael Branning helped install the giant poster on the walls that is an image of Jacques’s atelier in Paris. It looks very good. I received some of Jarrige’s work but other pieces are stuck in customs so it looks like we will be...
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Furniture by Robert Daniel Gerard, ada Sam Gerard
I live in Rockland County next to the Lamont laboratory and one of my neighbors, Alice Gerard who recently lost her husband wrote a book about his work and their lives. Alice is an archeologist and an anthropologist. She is also the area’s historian. While visiting her I noticed some beautiful pieces of lighting and furniture and learned that her husband Sam had built them in the 60’s and...
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Listening to Santiago Calatrava
Listening to Santiago Calatrava
I was glad to go back to the 92nd Street Y’s Design Legends series and attend the talk by Santiago Calatrava interviewed by Paul Goldberger . Read his very good article in the New Yorker
Santiago Calatrava enthusiastically presented his work starting from his studies of the human body in drawings and sculptures to his architectural and engineering achievements:...
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Recent Exhibition: Eric Schmitt
Valerie Goodman gallery recently had an exhibition of vases by Eric Schmitt: “Bohemian Series” featuring colorful hand blown glass in various combinations and two models with bronze bases that are like large pieces of jewelry
Eric Schmitt is an important French artist who designs classic yet innovative furniture made of durable materials such as bronze and marble. His work was first noted in the...
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Preparing the Jacques Jarrige Exhibition
I am expecting the shipment carrying the Jarrige furniture I will present in my gallery starting October 27. I have already hung 2 Fiori chandeliers and sconces . Next week we will install on the gallery walls the giant poster of Jacques’ atelier in Paris against which the pieces will be displayed. The idea came to me because Jacques cannot travel and I wanted his presence at the show. For...
September 2010
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Olana & Hudson River Mansions
I spent last Saturday visiting a few historical homes on the Hudson River starting with Olana built by Frederic Edwin Church in 1872. There is much to see between the grounds and the home and I recommend the following article to learn more about the magnificent Persian architecture and the setting of the structure overlooking the Hudson, which is the background carefully chosen by the...
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Interview with Sarah Raymond, Decorator NY
VG: When did you start your career as an interior decorator?
S.R: I feel like I have always been in design. When I arrived from France I studied interior design at FIT and started working immediately after for Sarah Tomerlin Lee. who was in her time editor-in –chief of House Beautiful and worked in fashion. She took over her husband’s business Tom Lee, a successful interior designer, when he...
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Marc Newson at the 92 Y
Two blocks away from my gallery is the 92nd street Y and Thursday night was the 1st of their Dialogues with Design Legends series curated by Daniella Ohad Smith.
I was eager to go and listen to Marc Newson interviewed by Alice Rawsthorn of the International Herald Tribune because he has made such a mark in so many industries from a piece of luggage for Samsonite, to spaceships for EADS, cars,...
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Daniel Mack's New Work
I really enjoyed seeing Daniel Mack’s new work at the outside in gallery in Piermont NY. Daniel Mack has been working with drift wood found in the Hudson for 30 years. He is famous for his chairs made out of oars and other found pieces that are in a number of museum’s permanent collections. Recently to balance his architecture works which are long term projects and jobs that don’t satisfy his...
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Interview with Thomas Gallery
At 315 East 91st Street on the 6th Floor you will find Thomas Gallery www.tomthomasgallery.com who recently relocated from East 59th Street. I interviewed its founder Tom Thomas Gargiulo
VG: You started as a collector …
TT: Yes of pieces of contemporary arts and furniture prototypes
VG: Such as…
TT: Andre Serrano (http://andresserrano.org/), David Wojnarowicz...
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2 Important Events in Paris
If you are thinking of visiting Paris and are interested in interior design, this is the time.
The 25th anniversary of La Biennale des Antiquaires focuses this year on the quality of furniture and objects. This year Galerie Vallois will present pieces by Jean Dunand. New this year: 25 Young dealers will exhibit 25 objects. It takes place at le Grand Palais September 15-22, 2010.
Also of note...
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Interview with Historical Design Gallery
I liked the idea of opening my gallery at 315 East 91st Street because it’s not a trendy neighborhood but a real one. It’s a professional building where you’ll find restorers and a couple of great galleries. One of them happens to be Historical Design, one of the most important 20th and 21st Century Decorative arts gallery in the US. They relocated from 61st Street because they figured since most...
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My First Gallery Exhibition and Eric Schmitt
My first gallery exhibition came about when I met an art publisher in Paris, Christophe Boutin who introduced me to Eric Schmitt. We didn’t know much about each other so we had a fun meeting talking about our common past in the music industry, people we both knew, looking at images of furniture, French galleries etc. I right away loved Eric’s esthetics, his pure lines and choice of material so...
August 2010
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Lacquer & Eggshell
Growing up in France I was exposed to multicultural influences and was especially attracted from an early age to art and decorative arts from Asia. It was exotic and dreamy which suited my mood.
Lacquered furniture and eggshell lacquer became very important in French interiors with Jean Dunand (1877–1942). He was a lacquer, sculptor, dinandier (copper manufacturer) and interior designer ...
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Growing up in Paris l was breathing art, it was everywhere I looked and people around me all created something. It was a gift that shaped my life: I would always find a way to share my artistic finds, connect artists to an audience
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