{"id":293469,"date":"2025-11-18T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293469\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T21:47:07","slug":"crossed-trajectories-exhibit-midcentury-modern-design-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293469\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossed Trajectories Exhibit: Midcentury Modern Design Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAt the peak of the midcentury modern design<\/a> period, many of the era\u2019s pioneers crisscrossed the globe, forging ties and creating landmarks. An exhibit<\/a> titled \u201cCrossed Trajectories: Jean Roy\u00e8re<\/a>, Roberto Plat\u00e9, and the Global Journey of Designers and Artists,\u201d which opened Tuesday at New York City\u2019s Sutton Tower, demonstrates how this frenzied post-World War II movement created a cultural dialogue that still echoes today. This was one of the main reasons Galerie Gabriel, together with art<\/a> collective\u00a0CMS Collection, tapped New York\u2013based, Brazilian interior designer\u00a0Andre Mellone to curate the exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cCrossed Trajectories\u201d\u00a0includes over 100 works spanning furniture, lighting and painting, including a Jean Roy\u00e8re armchair, a Roberto Plat\u00e9 canvas, a chair by Tenreiro, an Italian chandelier by modernist Gino Sarfatti, and a piece by Maria Pergay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have always admired Andr\u00e9 Mellone\u2019s work, and for\u00a0\u2018Crossed Trajectories\u2019\u00a0the choice felt natural \u2014 it just made sense,\u201d\u00a0Nancy Gabriel, who founded Galerie Gabriel in 2013, told WWD.\u00a0\u201cHis Brazilian roots, New York practice, and culturally rich design<\/a> language truly reflect the narrative of the exhibition. Andre brings together modernist rigor with a contemporary eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the war, Brazil became a magnet for \u00e9migr\u00e9 designers like Joaquim Tenreiro, Jorge Zalszupin, Martin Eisler, Carlo Hauner, Giuseppe Scapinelli, and Zanine Calda \u2014 all of whom fused European memory and heritage with tropical climate and craft, inventing a radical ecological modernism.<\/p>\n

\n\tRoy\u00e8re, for example, was often regarded as a pillar of European design along with Le Corbusier and Gio Ponti<\/a>. Many of his works were coveted, particularly by the royal circles and elite of the Middle East. He designed the captain\u2019s quarters of the ocean liner SS\u00a0France<\/a>\u00a0in 1961. Though he had showrooms from S\u00e3o Paulo to Tehran, Iran, production of his designs was halted when he ceased working as a decorator.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRoy\u00e8re\u2019s philosophy behind the aesthetic is something that I want to push. I want to make the viewers, the collector, understand that there is a driving force, there is a philosophy behind the result of each piece,\u201d Gabriel added.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Nancy<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tNancy Gabriel <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Galerie Gabriel<\/p>\n

\n\tRoberto Plat\u00e9, who was born in Buenos Aires in 1940 and left Argentina to settle in Paris, is also emblematic of this creative migration. Plat\u00e8 was known for his work in scenography and as a painter and for revolutionary works like\u00a0Ba\u00f1os P\u00fablicos\u00a0from 1972, Gabriel added.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI was very honored to have been invited. I love everything Nancy does, but most of all, the opportunity to play with such iconic pieces is something any designer would be lucky to do. Discovering the art<\/a> of Roberto Plat\u00e9 was an added and unexpected pleasure,\u201d Mellone said. <\/p>\n

\n\tLooking ahead, Gabriel said she would like to put forth strong female stories like that of Pergay, a Moldova-born designer who was the\u00a0mother of four and was born under the rule of Joseph Stalin. She started her career in post-war Paris, beautifying boutique windows with her silver creations before producing a complete collection in the late 1950s. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cToday we are appreciating more and more the input of women in the world of design and we want their battle to be out there and to be respected and acknowledged. Maria Pergay was such a strong woman,\u201d Gabriel said.<\/p>\n

\n\tSutton Tower is located in the Midtown East neighborhood. The exhibit runs until April 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the peak of the midcentury modern design period, many of the era\u2019s pioneers crisscrossed the globe, forging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11480,449,458,459,64,63,460,134,132385,168644],"class_list":{"0":"post-293469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-exhibit","17":"tag-gio-ponti"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}