Incollect Magazine - Issue 15

Incollect Magazine 17 Jean Royère, circa 1955, originally commissioned for André Castoriano, the prominent Lima antiques dealer with whom Royère established Le Magasin de Paris gallery and workshop as part of his expansion into Latin America. Francis Milord says his booth design at Salon this year will be themed. “It is based on a chic private office, featuring luxurious Art Deco furniture mixed with pieces by Paul Evans, Dan Johnson and Philip and Kelvin LaVerne.” Twenty First Gallery has organized its booth around ideas of transformation. “We are celebrating how artists select a material, sometimes a very traditional one, and work to transform it into something else. We also want the booth to feel less like an exhibition and more like the home of a collector, with pieces that feel as though they have been collected slowly, almost inherited. For me, this creates an interesting tension between past and future, tradition and experimentation, the functional and the sculptural,” says Renaud Vuaillat, Founder, Twenty First Gallery. The 15th edition will also open with a new entrance hall installation by New York interior designer Courtney McLeod, principal of Right Meets Left Interior Design. McLeod has conceived a surrealist environment titled Impossible Blooms, inspired by dreams and the fantastical imagery of Alice in Wonderland. The installation will transform the historic entrance hall of the Park Avenue Armory, creating a theatrical transition from the street into the fair. Known for interiors that combine strong color, pattern and objects from different periods, McLeod describes the project as an opportunity to make visitors feel as though they are “stepping through the looking glass.” Rare vintage edition folding screen, Citta de Carte/Farfalle by Piero Fornasetti, lithographic-transfer print with hand colouring over lacquered wood. Italy, c. 1950, from Milord Antiques.