Another new spot is the New York branch of Parisian gallery Amelie, Maison d’Art, which recently opened in a 6,000-square-foot space in Soho. To bring its roster of 100 contemporary artists stateside, the gallery commissioned French-American architectural duo Tess Walraven and Nike Vogrinec, along with Keith Burns, to design a space in a late nineteenth century building that evokes a collector’s home combined with an art studio: curved white walls, cast iron columns, a bronze floor inlay, and a skylit atmosphere work as a warm, inviting backdrop for works like a timber and bronze bench by Linde Freya Tangelder (Destroyers/Builders), a ceramic carpet inlay by Heloise Bariol, sofa by Pierre Augustin Rose, a large, light-filtering sculpture by Gerd Kanz, and an intricately carved double door of French oak panels by Eloi Schultz.
Sight Unseen
