Unique items that question ideas about the contemporary home, by designers including Martino Gamper and Studio Swine, are on display at Chamber gallery in New York's Chelsea.
Just What Is It is the first of four exhibitions in Chamber's Collection #3, curated by Matylda Krzykowski of contemporary design gallery Depot Basel.
Just What Is It includes items like these merino wool textiles by Design Displacement Group
The show is named after English artist Richard Hamilton's 1956 artwork: Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing"
As his collage presents objects considered desirable at the time, so Krzykowski has similarly selected covetable luxury and one-off pieces that reflect or suggest current tastes and preoccupations. Mirrored items in the show include this room divider by Oskar Zieta
"The request to make a choice of one hundred items for a gallery show is like collecting one hundred potential fragments for a collage," said the curator and designer. "It's an ambivalent concept, because clearly the aura of the individual piece is sabotaged."
Design-art items that straddle functional and sculptural are on display across the gallery. They range from surrealist lights and foldable structures to a giant architectural drawing template.
Mirka Laura Severa's illuminated photographs are located in the gallery's window like adverts
At the entrance, Mirka Laura Severa's illuminated photographs of dressed prosthetic limbs act like a...