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designboom previewed the exhibition ahead of its opening to speak with Gonzalez, who explained the spirit of her work: \u2018We opened one and a half years ago. The new exhibition is about landscape \u2014 we are exploring the concept of landscape in different ways: texture, pattern, art, materials, and craft. <\/p>\n
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\u2018What\u2019s new is that we\u2019re doing this space like an art gallery. We call it the \u2018gallery inside the gallery.\u2019 It\u2019s a dialogue between Fabien Conti \u2014 who is a young, 25 year-old French artist \u2014 and my lamps, which are brand new. Just eight pieces of them will be made.\u2019<\/p>\n
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images courtesy Laura Gonzalez Studio, unless otherwise stated<\/p>\n
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new lighting in dialogue with gestural paintings<\/p>\n
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The exhibition centers on this dialogue, placing Laura Gonzalez<\/a>\u2019s new series of lamps across from Fabien Conti<\/a>\u2019s atmospheric paintings. Conti\u2019s canvases appear as suspended fields rendered from gestural strokes and diffused color. The works appear radiant and soft as the array shifts between cool greens and warm tonal gradients that suggest a sense of gentle motion.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Gonzalez clusters her lamps at the center of the space, introducing a luminous heart to the room backdropped by Conti\u2019s paintings. Made in Paris from ecological resin with marble bases, the pieces have an organic and translucent surface that reads differently in each edition.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The designer describes the unique material and process: \u2018Each of these ecological resin lamps is unique in color, and only eight of them will be made because it\u2019s a very complicated process. This type of resin is a very new material, and when you develop a new material, it\u2019s always touchy. So the textures and the shapes are different, but I prefer that they are all unique.\u2018<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Material experimentation for emerging forms<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Throughout Laura Gonzalez\u2019s New York showroom and gallery, variations of the Landscape Lamp show how this new material behaves under light. Each of the eight editions reveals a different density and chromatic drift within the resin. Meanwhile, the soft irregularity of their volumes creates an immediate connection to the gestural paintings on either side.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The show expands beyond lighting. Furniture pieces such as the Quilt table, Relief chair, and Colline sofa form a broader study of topography through line, volume, and craft. The Quilt table overlays linear color fields across a resin top supported by sculpted wooden legs, while the Relief chair introduces gentle carved undulations that seems to be shaped by the terrain.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Craft as contemporary luxury<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Gonzalez describes the exhibition as an exploration of new forms of luxury defined by handcraft: \u2018The pieces are all very luxurious, but for me, luxury today is handcraft. Especially in our work, everything is craft, everything has a story, and everything is unique. <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u2018For example, this lampshade is made from silk, but it\u2019s done in a small factory in France where they created the silk without killing the silkworms. Normally when silk is made, the silkworms are dying. So with this process, only a small quantity is developed. The process is very long and the result is very valuable. This is luxury.\u2019<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n That approach appears throughout the show. The \u00c9corce table pairs hand-shaped bronze legs with a glass top that introduces an airy counterbalance. The Eternal Mirror is framed by ceramic elements shaped like geological fragments which demonstrate the patience and detail behind each component. Landscape becomes both theme and method, encouraging visitors to understand the pieces through material progression and handmade nuance.<\/p>\n![\"laura](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/laura-gonzalez-landscapes-showroom-gallery-franklin-new-york-designboom-02.jpg\")
Laura Gonzalez debuts the Landscapes exhibition at her Franklin Street gallery in New York<\/p>\n![\"laura](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/laura-gonzalez-landscapes-showroom-gallery-franklin-new-york-designboom-03.jpg\")
furniture pieces such as the Quilt table and Relief chair extend the exhibition\u2019s study of terrain<\/p>\n![\"laura](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/laura-gonzalez-landscapes-showroom-gallery-franklin-new-york-designboom-04.jpg\")
craft plays a central role in the exhibition with materials developed through patient experimentation<\/p>\n![\"laura](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/laura-gonzalez-landscapes-showroom-gallery-franklin-new-york-designboom-05.jpg\")
Gonzalez describes the project as a \u2018gallery inside the gallery\u2019 where design meets contemporary art<\/p>\n