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 the same reason we will also play a video of him working because this is an artist who actually makes his own pieces as he likes to say he is an artist-artisan.  

 It was hard to make a selection of his works because every time I saw a new piece I wanted to have it. I want people in the US to discover his work so I had to select a large enough sample of his pieces. The work is addictive, spirited and I am not the only one thinking that.  I have met a few French collectors of his pieces who have been living with them for a number of years and feel uplifted every time they look at them or use them as if they had a soul and every time they have a chance, they add to their Jarrige collection. Since his Barbarian days www.barbares.com Jacques has kept a fresh approach to building furniture that are also sculptures

Last week I met 2 French people who live in New York and have brought with them from Paris chairs, tables, lamps and other pieces of Jarrige, they enthusiastically showed them to me and offered to lend them for the exhibition.

The dining table is made of MDF and lacquered  http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=452727

The coffee table http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=452742  has a biomorphic feel to it

The bronze table lamp http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=452748  with the handmade shade is pure fantasy

The Armchair  http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=450551 is Barbarian.

Other works for Jacques in Parisian apartments

Join us for the opening reception on October 27 at 6pm.