Installing: the exhibition of Jacques Jarrige opens tonight

Yesterday evening installing the exhibition of new works by Jacques Jarrige with the precious help of Mathieu Loisel and Claire Le Douaron also documenting. Jacques is in Paris but with us  through Skype. 

Join us for the opening reception tonight May 15, 6 - 8 PM at Valerie Goodman Gallery

315 East 91st Street, 4th floor, NY NY 10128

Jacques Jarrige + collaborative work of Jarrige, Mathieu Loisel and the patients of l’Hopital des Murets outside Paris. Photos and videos by Claire Le Douaron

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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. 

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 Charlotte Perriand. That was another success. First it was my first time back at the Petit Palais in years and it is a wonderful place with a beautiful quiet garden. The Exhibition was very well conceived: I was transported into her world and could understand it like one can suddenly read a music score: The connection between what she saw, photographed, collected  and created became obvious, her relationships with Le Corbusier, Janneret and Fernand Leger gave the context to understanding  her strength.  Her pieces of furniture exhibited through out the museum in a hybrid way, among the 18th Century collection as well as in  a dedicated room became incredibly beautiful and important.

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

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 director for Montana while launching his own line under his name. In 2005, in Paris, Tools Galerie shows his collection named « Petites architectures ». He is presently preparing for Christofle a collection « Maison »
In 2010, Stéphane Parmentier creates the “Lava” collection: a series of stools in Volvic stone, a dark black lava, well-known for its use in the making of the cathedral of Clermont Ferrand in the Auvergne region. The stools were conceived as hybrid objects that can be used as occasional tables, bedsides or simply stools. Their forms were inspired by the architecture of the airports from the 70’s (control towers, satellites of Roissy airport) gathering two domains that inspired the designer throughout his carreer: architecture and aviation.

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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 ecological venture with good  lyrical design.

The story is that in France there actually is a window replacement company, a major player in that field, that cares about the ecology so much that it set out to find a group of excellent designers to re-use the recuparated wood and create a sustainable furniture company.

In 2010, Fabrice Millet the industrialist, Damien Hamon the cabinet maker and Oliver Papet the designer set up the RU Edition Company.