A New Space for Galerie Kreo
Marc Newson’s Quobos enamelled steel, modular shelving collection for Galerie Kreo (image: Alexandra de Cossette).
Something new, something familiar: Galerie Kreo is to move to its London operations to a space on Cork Street, with an inaugural exhibition by Marc Newson, a designer whose last solo show with Kreo came in February 2004.
The new space is larger than Kreo’s existing UK premises on Hay Hill (which opened in 2014), and positions the collectible design gallery closer to the heart of Mayfair. To mark the new space, Newson will return to exhibit a solo collection with Kreo for the first time in 17 years, and 20 years on from his debut show at Kreo’s Paris space in June 2000.
Newson’s exhibition will focus on Quobos, a modular shelving typology produced from enamelled steel, held together with brass screws. Executed in black and white, or else shades of pastel pink, green and blue, Quobos is billed as “[exploring and renewing] the typology of the shelf”.
The new London space will open in September 2021, with Quobos also shown at Kreo’s rue Dauphine space in Paris, where it will be on view from 11 September to 20 November 2021.
While Newson has not produced fresh work for Kreo in some time, the gallery has long sold his Embryo and Wicker chairs – the decision to relaunch London operations with his work ties the new space to the gallery’s early days in Paris. Further keeping things in the family, the London gallery will be led by Clara Krzentowski, the daughter of Kreo’s founders Clémence and Didier Krzentowski, who takes up the role having spent several years working in the 20th Century and Contemporary Art department at Phillips Auctioneers.
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