Louisa Guinness Gallery - Garden Furniture



Garden Furniture


The Louisa Guinness Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition, Garden Furniture, with works to include benches, tables, bollards, picnic sets and ping-pong tables. This show aims to provide an interesting alternative to garden furniture and outdoor sculpture with a functional purpose, offering collectors an opportunity to purchase these limited edition and unique pieces.
	Works are exhibited by the following: Toland Grinnel, Danny Lane, Richard Wentworth, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Saint Clair Cemin, Mathias Bengtsson, Allen Jones and Ron Arad. Special commissions may also be arranged by Thomas Heatherwick, Jim Partridge and William Pye.
This exhibition is sponsored in part by Moyses-Stevens. Founded in London in 1876 and holder of two Royal Warrants, Moyses Stevens is one of the oldest and most established of London's florists.



Featured Artists :

Toland Grinnel is a New York artist best known for his over-the-top art-in-trunk sculptures. From his Pied-a-terre (An Apartment for Two in 35 Trunks) to Portable Go-go(a dance floor enclosed in a beautifully hand crafted leather 'Louis Vuitton' type case), Grinnel's work has been exhibited earlier this year in a sell out solo show with Mary Boone and previously with mainstream New York dealers, Sperone Westwater. His work is part of the collection at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and PS 1, and his first museum show is slated for Vienna.

Danny Lane , an American artist currently residing in London, is known internationally for his large-scale glass sculpture. Lane's most notable solo commissions include a balustrade of stacked glass for the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (1994), a float glass and stainless steel sculpture at 20 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London (2003), and most recently, a large 90m long glass sculpture in Gateshead.

Richard Wentworth has been a leading British sculptor since the end of the 1970's and is currently focusing on photography. Born in Samoa, Wentworth studied at the Royal College of Arts and was been awarded both the Mark Rothko Memorial and Berlin DAAD Fellowship. His works have been exhibited at the following institutions: Serpentine Gallery, Lisson Gallery, Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Hayward Gallery, London; The Isreal Museum, Jerusalem, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philidelphia; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.

Ian Hamilton Finlay is a Scottish artist best known for his concrete poems, sculpture and love of gardening. Though short-listed for the Turner prize in 1985, he has achieved international acclaim through exhibitions and permanent landscape installations throughout the world. He currently resides in the Southern Uplands of Scotland near his world-famous garden, Stonypath.

Saint Clair Cemin is a New York based, Brazilian artist. Known mostly for his sculptures in wood and bronze, Cemin's inspirations include everything from Greek philosophy to cheap curios. His works have been exhibited internationally at major institutions around the world including: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico; Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Mathias Bengtsson was born in Copenhagen in 1971 and studied at the Danish Design School and at The Art Centre College-Europe before moving to London to study at the Royal College of Art. Mathias is best known for his slice series of furniture for which he has used a combination of hand craftsmanship and the latest computerised laser cutting techniques to create a series of chairs and chaise lounges.

Allen Jones is a London-based pop artist known mostly for his painting and sculpture that often feature the familiar long-legged lady figures that have become synonymous with his name. His work is held widely in international collections and many of his large sculptures are on view in public spaces throughout Europe.

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