DECEMBER 3 - 7, 2014 - BOOTH G12

MERIDIAN AVENUE & 19TH STREET, MIAMI BEACH, USA

Studio Job revisits the world’s most beautiful monuments in an exhibition that could only be termed “monumental” for Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s booth at Design Miami.

The fantasy world of Studio Job finds its inspiration in London with Big Ben Aftermath. The sculpture, topped with a replica of an typical English bus, has its own mechanical timepiece.

Studio Job is also inspired by France. First of all in Chartres, with a reproduction of the cathedral in bronze that opens up like a precious altarpiece. Then on to Paris with the bronze Eiffel Tower Lamp that bends under invisible pressure and becomes a desk lamp.

This extraordinary journey ends in India with the Taj Mahal. The famous marble mausoleum is upturned and transformed into an elegant polished bronze table.

A show that is sure to satisfy the growing interest in collection design pieces.

Studio Job is a collective of two artists, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel, both graduates of the Eindhoven Design Academy. Today they share their time between Antwerp and the Netherlands. Their collaboration has led to the production of one-off pieces as well as series of highly expressive works.

ABOUT CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY
Carpenters Workshop Gallery produces and exhibits functional sculptures by international rising and already established artists and designers going outside their traditional territories of expression.

The gallery is actively involved in the research and production of the limited edition works exhibited. The choices are guided by the research of an emotional, artistic and historical relevance; a relevance that appears as an evidence.

The gallery relies on the partnership of childhood friends, Julien Lombrail and Loic Le Gaillard. They first opened a space in London’s Chelsea in 2006 in a former carpenter’s workshop; they then followed with a second space in Mayfair in 2008.

The opening of a 600 square metre space in Paris in 2011 at 54 rue de la Verrerie, an address steeped in history as it was previously occupied by the Galerie de France for several decades, is a kind of return to their roots.

The expansion into Paris confirms the two founders’, and associate gallery director Aurélie Julien’s commitment to the international promotion of the gallery’s artists and designers.