From May 6th to August 16, 2025, the Carpenter's workshop Gallery opens its doors in New York Form & aestheticsAn exhibition that hums with the legacy of Italian design. In the gallery, which specializes in the absorption of functional art and collecting design, the current show gathers a choir of previous and current voices that reflect the permanent dialogue between beauty and benefits, craft and industry, memory and imagination. Curated with soft pastels inspired by Palazzo Venezia and designed by Jean de Piépape, the work that lives in the exhibition room seems to speak in steamed tones.
In the heart of the design exhibition are contemporary artists Vincenzo de Cotiis and Giacomo Ravagli, two designers based in Milan who embody the spirit of modern Italian design with awe and rebellion. De Cotiis, known for its architectural sensitivity, presents nine sculptural pieces that were apparently excavated by a futuristic ruin. Be DC1909A Chandelier remembers the traditional Japanese Chochin lanterns, but its brass and murano glass materials push it into another era. In the DC2101 Coffee table, the time is engraved into the hand -patinated bronze, which reflects a material story both industrially and intimate.
In contrast, Ravaglis seven works channel the weight and silence of stone. Be Stall lamp 3.3 yellow siena barometer Is a sculpture first, secondly. With its sharp, faceted marble base and brass crown, the lamp design positions itself as a contemporary relic – one that is based on Renaissance ideals of the relationship and at the same time cuts the space with modern angles. In his product design presented, it pursues an elegance in the tension of shapes – geometry arises in contradiction to the solidity of the stone.
Throughout the presentation, works by luminaires of the 20th century are interwoven masters who have shaped the Italian design into a global language. The Vetrocoke offices desk From 1939 by Gio Ponti, known as the father of modern Italian design, he remains amazingly modern and balanced vitrex glass and wood. Be Lounge set, sofaMade in cooperation with the Italian designer Emilio Lancia, the duality of rationalism and sensuality, formality and comfort sells.
Gabriella Crespi, another key figure in the Italian creative landscape, brings a sculptural and versatile approach for furniture design, jewelry and lighting in Form & aesthetics. Her kaleidoscope The lighting design shines with brass facets and throws a light that feels heavenly. The work is reminiscent of cosmic influences and crespis characteristic fusion of beauty and spiritual semantics.
These dialogues – between artists and craftsmen, the weight of the history and the temptation of the innovation – are researched in the Carpenter's workshop Gallery through contemporary designs. Since its beginnings in a former Carpenter's workshop in London, the gallery has developed into an international platform for collectible design that redefines the conventional limits of art and function. With its commitment to manual production and research, the gallery strives to shape what it means to live with art.
Form & aesthetics becomes an expansion of this ethos – meditation about the ability of Italian design, space, time to change and to offer the audience a different perspective. Together, the presented works of furniture to light up to functional sculpture and sustainable influence of Italy are based on the design and its journey from the early 20th century to its contemporary development.
'Forma & Estica' can be seen from May 6th to August 16, 2025 in the Carpenter's workshop Gallery in New York.