Mouvements Modernes at Design Miami

CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE & 19TH STREET MIAMI BEACH, USA
Dec 3, 2024 - Dec 8, 0224
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fair and in response to the theme The Blue Sky thinking proposed by Glenn Adamson, Mouvements Modernes gallery, for its first participation, will invite the public to explore beyond conven- tional limits, established forms and preconceived horizons. It is through the imagination of five designers that we will take the public towards new perspectives.

 

Taking advantage of the randomness of the juxtaposed elements, developing a curve, improving a line, Pucci de Rossi magnified the vernacular and gave birth to a designer's dream: “sculptures to live with”. We'll showing a unique and exceptional desk , in which the designer's imagination and poetry are all concentrated. A unique piece dating from 1988, which was the first desk of a famous Parisian plastic surgeon’s office. The owner purchased it directly from the artist’s studio, marking the beginning of a friendship between the two figures and the start of a collection. It’s a free-form desk with an integrated lamp, accompanied by a rolling chair and two reception arm-chairs. All the joy, playfulness, and the sculptural and theatrical aspect of Pucci’s furniture are brought together in this set. Made of metal, wood, PVC, plexiglass, and engraved glass, this desk is a perfect example of the mastery achieved by this brilliant sculptor designer, who played with all the codes of decorative arts. As play-ful as the concept may be, time has given it a beautiful patina and the appearance of a presidential desk.

The surrealism of this historic Pucci desk matches with the ceramic wall sculpture by Léontine Furcy. Her cha- motte plate technique allows her to play with the material and create a wall sculpture made of symbols, like a language that each viewer can take its own.

 

The infinite Totems by young designer Tim Leclabart, a Rising Talent awarded by Philippe Stark in 2023, one of whose seats was recently acquired by the Mobilier National, will offer a glimpse of an imaginary landscape. A colorful forest , made of wood and resin ill light up the booth. For the fair and as a tribute to the color of the water, sky, and some of Miami's Art Deco façades, an exclusive version in turquoise resin will be presented. When unlit, they are sculptures, a nod to Brancusi’s Endless Column, guiding us toward the sky. When illuminated, they become luminous sculptures, with resin gently diffusing the light, inviting reflection on its own transpa-rency.

 

Nadège Desgenétez wants to explore how the natural world may be experienced and felt with and through the body. As Glenn Adamson describes her work: «It would be difficult to overstate my surprise and amazement on encountering the work of Nadège Desgenétez, [which] combined sensuous, consummately crafted forms with a probing investigation of feminist iconography. Most impressively, she uses the materiality of glass itself to suggestive effect. Her sculptures reflect light when polished, but capture and internalize light when sand blas-ted, creating the impression of varying states of mind, extroverted and introverted, and of contrasting states of the body as well, subjective and objectified. It is an entrancing and sophisticated body of work.»

 

Another work in glass will be presented on the stand, that of multi-form artist Morgane Tschiember. Honey Honey is made from liquid glass, an amorphous liquid like honey. Glass has the same melting point as honey, and the two materials share the same crystallization process. Morgane offers visitors the frozen beauty of materials.

 

Through their work, these five artists play with the illusions of materials, their re-use, alternating lines and curves, and the illusion of reflections.
Furniture and sculpture will establish a link between our everyday life, our past experience and a futuristic,