June 16, 2020 (New York, United States) – Affirming its engagement in the support and promotion of international art, design, and architecture, A R T Communication + Brand Consultancy is pleased to announce its global PR representation of New York-based design gallery Les Ateliers Courbet. Noted for its distinct curatorial focus dedicated to the ongoing craftsmanship mastery and design legacies carried-on by the contemporary artisans and centuries-old manufactures it represents.
Starting in the Fall of 2020, Les Ateliers Courbet will resume its 2020 exhibition program within the gallery space, interrupted over the past months due to COVID-19 pandemic. While Les Ateliers Courbet’s exhibitions program highlights the time-honored techniques behind an objet d’art, its adjoining salons serve as a permanent display of timeless design pieces – bringing together contemporary creations and sought-after pieces culled from the archives. In conjunction, the gallery cultivates the longstanding dialogue between revered ateliers and artists, introducing collaborations among which Venini’s glass blowers and Tadao Ando, Nepalese weavers and Frank Gehry, or Aldo Bakker and the silversmiths of Wiener Silber Manufaktur.
Established in 2013 by Mélanie Courbet, the gallery was born from the desire to share a deep appreciation for master-craftsmen’s ethos and works of art that embody artisanal dexterity and cultural heritage. Rooted in Courbet’s extensive travels and collaborations with artists, designers and artisans around the world, the gallery is a paean to the scrupulous work of today’s rarefied master-craftsmen. Since its opening, Les Ateliers Courbet has garnered international recognition from a clientele of private collectors, interior designers and institutions alike. Today, the gallery represents over 50 traditional crafts passed on by long lineages of esteemed artisans from around the world, including marquetry, woodcraft, ceramic and glasswork, weaving and metalsmithing.
While pursuing its mission with exhibitions, institutional collaborations and publications, the gallery further supports its ateliers with the Editions Courbet – a series of editioned pieces created by guest artists and hand-crafted by the gallery’s master-craftsmen. Each artist is invited to design a collection inspired by the craftsmanship expertise of one atelier. As a tribute to the artisans’ culture of excellence and humility, each Editions Courbet collection will be named after their respective fabricators. The next Editions Courbet collection will be unveiled in September 2020.
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NOTES TO EDITORS
Les Ateliers Courbet
134 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
United States
https://www.ateliercourbet.com/
Image credit: View of Les Ateliers Courbet, New York. Courtesy of Les Ateliers Courbet.