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  1. Galerie Magazine | Creative Mind: Lara Bohinc

    Lara Bohinc

    The jewelry designer turned furniture maker has found inspiration in everything from the cosmos to the pandemic for her eye-catching creations recently presented at Design Miami/

    Lara Bohinc's Moonrise sconce, Kissing armchair, and Profiterole small coffee table in Nero Marquina marble.

    Highly sought after for her celestial-inspired lighting and sumptuous furniture pieces, Lara Bohinc began her career on a much smaller scale. She spent years designing remarkable bijoux for Lanvin and Gucci and serving as a creative consultant for Cartier. Transforming her Planetaria jewelry collection into an intoxicating array of lighting set her on a new path. Bohinc made her furniture debut with the Solaris Kinetic table during 2014’s Salone del Mobile. Most recently, she introduced Moonrise, a puzzle-like selection of lighting, available at Roll & Hill, and premiered Afternoon Tea at the London Design Festival in 2021, then presented it at Design Miami/.

    Influences: “The collections can be inspired by many different things. Sometimes it can be just a simple idea, like how do you make a 3D shape out of a 2D circle? The movement of the planets is also something that I’ve been really fascinated by. But Afternoon Tea came from a time of isolation when I wanted the objects to make you feel loved.”

    Lara Bohinc's Kissing sofa and Moonrise chandelier.

    What’s Next: “We’re going to be showing part of a new collection during Alcova in Milan. I call it Peachy; it’s very feminine and curvier than before.”

    Lara Bohinc’s Profiterole occasional and cocktail tables. Trevor dining chair by Lara Bohinc.

  2. Jwan Yosef x Henzel Studio Limited Edition Collection Launch / Architectural Digest

    Artist Jwan Yosef in his Los Angeles studio.

    Masking tape, duct tape, and blue painter’s tape might not seem inspirational in and of themselves, but in the hands of Jwan Yosef, these pedestrian materials have been transformed into paintings and sculptural installations that, he says, “conceptually hold a room together, in a very naïve and playful way.” The Syrian-born artist’s series of “masking” paintings debuted in 2014 at Stene Projects in Stockholm (his family immigrated to Sweden when he was just two years old), followed a few years later by installations at Guerrero Projects in Houston and the Bomb Factory Art Foundation, a nonprofit he cofounded while living in London, where he earned a Master’s in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.

    But it’s Yosef’s latest iteration of this concept that might actually hold rooms together—a collaboration with Henzel Studio on a collection of limited-edition carpets. It’s his first foray into the home design realm, and he’s in very good company. Henzel Studio was founded over two decades ago in Sweden and has become world-renowned for realizing the work of notable contemporary artists in luxury carpets. Their previous collaborations resulted in pieces with Marilyn Minter, Mickalene Thomas, Richard Prince, Nan Goldin, and Jack Pierson.

    A portrait of the artist Jwan Yosef.

    Yosef’s Masking, Masking #1 and Masking #2 are free-form cream-colored pieces with variable pile heights that create the effect of layered masking tape; Duct, Duct #1 and Duct #2 are the same idea in shades of gray; Electrical, Electrical #1 and Electrical #2 in black. Each is a numbered edition of 20 with one artist’s proof. Painter’s is a singular design, also in a numbered edition of 20, realized in shades of cobalt blue. Yosef, who now lives in Los Angeles with his husband, the singer-songwriter Ricky Martin, and their children, has said “I don’t really consider this carpet as two-dimensional. I worked with masking tape as a reference and the carpet became a pretty accurate three-dimensional imitation of that real object. The elevations of the crossing pieces of ‘tape’ are pretty real in proportions.”

    Joakim Andreasson, Curator of Henzel Studio Collaborations, first reached out to Yosef three years ago. “With both of us being Swedish and living in L.A., there was instant common ground, and the creative process started right there and then,” he recalled of their initial meeting. “I was instantly drawn to Jwan’s ability to apply a different physical appropriation of his work with tape, and we both saw the potential for stunning rugs unlike anything out there. The concept also allowed us to create variations in terms of type of tape, which determines color, and shape, both of which we have explored.”

    Jwan Yosef, Painters, 2021. Hand-knotted silk rug (edition of 20 + 1 AP), 170 x 300 cm (65 x 130 in).

    Yosef, whose first name means “beautiful” in Kurdish, began the process as many do, with a sketch. But he “sketched” by putting masking tape directly on pieces of paper, layering the strips to create dimensional designs that he then scanned and digitized before they were transformed into hand-woven silk carpets. Andreasson, by now a veteran of this very specific sector, was especially excited about the results. “I have worked with nearly 40 artists across medias, and each provides its set of circumstances to explore, but our work with Jwan is amongst the most unique and, in turn, challenges the media at hand.”

    Detail image of: Jwan Yosef, Masking, 2018. Hand-knotted silk rug (edition of 20 + 1 AP), 165 x 300 cm (65 x 130 in).

    Coinciding with the debut of the carpets is a virtual exhibition of Yosef’s works at Frozen Palms Gallery, a contemporary art gallery also under the Henzel umbrella, with outposts in Los Angeles and Bastad, Sweden. “Object/Object,” is curated by Andreasson and Brianna Bakke, and will feature Yosef’s paintings and wall reliefs, as well as the hand-knotted rugs, that viewers can experience as though they were physically walking through a gallery, thanks to 3D technology powered by Artland. The rugs will also be on view at Twentieth in Los Angeles and Italo Design in Miami.

    “Object/Object” runs through February 9, 2022.

  3. Surface Table Limited Edition by Established & Sons

    Surface Table Limited Edition by Established & Sons



    Twentieth is proud to present the Six Meter Limited Edition Surface Table for the first time in North America.

    Fusing advanced engineering and artful design, the Limited Edition Surface Table from Established & Sons is the result of a pioneering collaboration between furniture designer Terence Woodgate and Formula 1 engineer John Barnard. The super-slim carbon fiber composite table––one of only twenty ever made––spans almost twenty feet in length with an edge thickness of two millimeters that visually defies what is possible.



    The Surface Table uses state-of-the-art auto-sport technology to exploit the inherent strength and rigidity of carbon fiber, handcrafted at the industry’s leading carbon fiber facility alongside the designs of Ferrari, Ducati, McLaren, Porsche, and Lamborghini. As Woodgate describes the design process, "The definition of a table is a horizontal supported surface, so we decided to try and make it just that: a surface with no real thickness." This is made possible with over one million black carbon fiber strands revealed in the dark mirror-like quality of the black surface. Radius corners, domed feet and rounded edges accentuate the elegance of the piece.

    Sublimely detailed, exquisitely proportioned, and constructed with the utmost technical precision, the table blends revolutionary engineering with timeless design to create an undeniably beautiful piece. The Limited Edition Surface Table will be displayed at the Twentieth showroom on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles now through December.
  4. MELTFORMS by Videre Licet




    THE NEW gallery presents a new exhibition, MELTFORMS by Videre Licet, an exploration of materiality and luminosity.

    Meltforms consists of a series of glass and metal sculptural lightboxes illuminated with internal LED lights. Attracted to the natural beauty of glass and its luminous qualities, Videre Licet set up their own small glass studio and worked with various glass craftspeople and facilities to produce a new series of glass works. Each piece is unique, produced as different colors of glass are melted in furnaces and poured onto a steel plate, where they are folded into each other while molten and then rolled through a steel mill to flatten them into sheets, creating unique patterns as the glass colors melt and fuse into each other.



    The sequencing of similar but non-continuous imagery into organic wholes using multiple parts relates to a common theme in artist, Daniele Albright’s art photography practice. In visual perception, the pattern making inclinations of the mind naturally favor the creation of connection over discontinuity. Visual pattern making and connection is connected to larger cognitive processes and subconsciously informs how we understand the world—luminosity, pattern and color are primal as well as phenomena that lead us into higher states of mind.

    After the exclusive opening at THE NEW gallery on October 25, 2018, Meltforms will be on view next door to the Twentieth showroom through January 2019.


  5. HENZEL STUDIO at Twentieth