The participation in the fair also marks an expanded engagement with audiences and collectors in the United States. With established spaces in New York, Los Angeles, London and Paris, Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s participation in Dallas Art Fair reflects a continued commitment to building dialogue with institutions, collectors and the wider cultural community in the southern US region.
Ishigaki Floor Lamp #24 by Paris-based design practice Aki+Arnaud Cooren is a work rooted in lived experience and material exploration. The lamp draws inspiration from experiences of freediving off the coast of Ishigaki Island in southern Japan, where immersion in the marine environment informed both the piece’s tactile surface and moss sand colour palette. The lamp’s textured base and shade evoke mineral deposits, coral formations, and underwater topographies, while the light projected overhead by the lamp is reminiscent a spot of sunlight on the sea’s surface as viewed from underwater.
Warsaw-based Marcin Rusak’s practice centres on the transient beauty of flowers. The work Vas Florum encapsulates the designer’s sustained investigation into nature, decay, and preservation. By encasing botanical elements within resin, Rusak halts the natural life cycle of flowers, creating a vessel that exists between fragility and permanence. Rusak thus reinvents the idea of the vase – an item inextricably linked with flowers and their display – as a time capsule charged with individual and collective memories, inviting reflection on beauty, permeance, and ephemerality.
Together, these works create a dialogue between nature and materiality, underscoring Carpenters Workshop Gallery’s commitment to collectible design as powerful force in the international contemporary art market. Celebrating work that redefines the boundaries between art, design, craft and architecture, the gallery brings its unique ethos to the Texas art market through this presentation at Dallas Art Fair.
