#MaxErnst “Chess Set and Board”
Executed in Great River, New York, summer of 1944. The wooden table was designed by #XeniaCage.
Collection of #JulianLevy, sold at Sotheby’s Madison Avenue, November 5th, 1981.
Paris, a week in Design. Only now am I revisiting the photos of a great week, packed with vetting and then the opening of the Design Miami/Paris Fair, and also selected moments in the brand new Art Deco exhibition at the @madparis . Not enough time as ever to catch up with everyone but always great to be able to tour the shows, discuss and enjoy what’s on offer with clients and contacts.
@designmiami #design #advisor
I apologize in advance for posting a portrait of myself (on the grid no less) but @jeremy_liebman is a pro, and this not so recent photo is perfect for the #WallpaperUSA400. I have said many times, I’m not one for self-promotion, but now that the gallery is officially closed I need to get better at it! I am honored to be included in this regal list for the second year in a row. It’s pretty great to be included with such an amazing list of supremely talented people, many I know and respect, and a few close friends as well. Congrats to the other 399 recipients and thanks @wallpapermag !!!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Tomorrow @wrightauction in Chicago I will be selling my collection of #EnzoMari “Cubos” from 1959-63. I was asked to write a story about my relationship to these enigmatic objects and here is is:
I’ve always been obsessed with balls. The only thing I’ve ever stolen in my life was a huge ball bearing from a neighborhood friend across the street when I was four or five years old. It was so perfect, shiny, and incredibly heavy. I still feel bad about that. So, flash forward 25 years, when I’m cruising through a tiny, cramped, overloaded junk shop on the Upper East Side and find myself surrounded by shelves filled with cubes of lucite, with all manner of balls and squares encased inside of them! I was stunned. What were they?
I picked one up and walked over to the owner to ask how much they were. He said seventy five bucks each. What??? Damn, I thought they were gonna be five bucks each, and I was going to buy all fifty of them. Well, it wasn’t meant to be, but I kept going back and coveting them until I finally bought some of the chipped and badly scratched ones for twenty bucks each (I should also mention that I ended up buying a bunch of deadstock Noguchi lamps at this shop, and I bet they came from the same source). I ended up giving away those first cubes to a girlfriend at the time, who had started a lucite paperweight collection. I probably didn’t keep any of them because I wanted one of the perfect ones, or maybe she was just persuasive... I don’t really remember now, but I know I still regret that decision.
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Design dealer Patrick Parrish, who has closed his pacesetting NYC gallery, is holding a sale of some of his great things at @wrightauction .
It’s a fascinating selection, offbeat yet erudite, totally worth checking out. This foot-shaped paperweight by Carl Auböck II - one of Patrick’s many subjects of expertise - caught my eye, as did the works by the St. Paul based design studio RO/LU who riff on modernist classics of the past in their razor sharp, deadpan objects (see images 2 through 5).
Auction on 11th April, see here for more info:
/auctions/2024/04/curated-selected-by-patrick-parrish-ii/info
@patrick_parrish_studio@ashtongilbert@wrightauction
Chris Beeston | “Party Boombox”
USA, 2019
22.75 x 13 x 9 inches
Available
Featured in his 2022 solo exhibition, Purpose, Chris Beeston’s “Party Boombox” is a once-abandoned speaker that Beeston found on the sidewalk and transformed into a centerpiece fit for a party, complete with bass-synced LEDs and rotating confetti of lights. Additional materials used include a plastic container, audio components, a wireless phone charger, urethane feet, and acrylic. Custom orders and commissions are always of interest. 🔊💃🕺🏾🪩📢
Christopher Prinz | “Cylindrical Wrinkled Coffee Table (Raw Rainbow Iridescent)”
USA, 2023
14 x 35 x 35 inches
POR | Made To Order
Sick wrinkled steel coffee table by Omaha-based designer Christopher Prinz. Available in various finishes – shown here in Rainbow Iridescent (Raw). Made-to-order and custom sizing is available.
Dear Clients, Friends, Collaborators, & Colleagues,
After more than a quarter-century with a street level gallery in New York, I have decided to close Patrick Parrish Gallery in Tribeca.
This was not an easy decision to make—made even harder by a supportive landlord who would have gladly renewed our ten-year lease on Lispenard Street. That being said, times are a’changing, and the renewal prompted me to question how I want to continue to participate in the world of design and art. I am excited to open myself up to new ways of engaging with the material and the creatives that have been my complete focus for more than half of my life.
As of December 1st, my team and I will be operating out of a studio space in Building 77 of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is already home to an amazing community of creatives. Our newly designed and historically comprehensive website documenting the last 20+ years of our exhibitions, fairs, publications, and projects will continue to be your go-to digital resource as always.
Our library of 5,000+ volumes is no doubt one of the most comprehensive in the city, and it will be reinstalled in Brooklyn. One of the greatest joys of my career has been engaging in the discourse surrounding design, art, and their intersection. There’s nothing I love more than answering the curiosity and enthusiasm of the next generations with examples of historic precedent and stories of the radical thinkers that came before.
Our Brooklyn studio will serve as the headquarters for all new projects, and, while I don’t know exactly what that will look like in terms of exhibitions or events, I am open to all possibilities and excited by what shape the new venture will take.
Thank you to all the artists and designers, members of the trade, collectors, fair organizers, editors, and writers who have supported the gallery over the years. I am most proud to have provided many now-household names with their first solo shows in New York, to have placed works in world class museum and private collections, and to know that our work has helped encourage so many others to follow us into this discipline. I look forward to seeing you all soon.
-Patrick
