Lalique, the iconic French crystal house opens its first art gallery in the world in historic and prestigious Burlington Arcade, Mayfair, London.
The Lalique Art Gallery will feature Lalique Art collections including those with Damien Hirst, Zaha Hadid, Terry Rodgers, Han Meilin and Nic Fiddian-Green.
The James Turrell x Lalique collaboration – two limited edition perfume bottles, Range Rider and Purple Sage and limited-edition panels, named Crystal Light – will be exhibited for the first time in the UK from May 17th, together with an exclusive new limited-edition piece by the artist which will be unveiled that day.
From September 2023, the gallery will showcase a new collection in collaboration with the Magritte Foundation in which the work of René Magritte is captured in six crystal sculptures in this, the year that marks the 125th anniversary of the artist’s birth.
Situated in Mayfair’s Burlington Arcade, it will be the fourth retail space for the house in London joining its other boutiques in Burlington Arcade, Conduit Street and Harrods.
Lalique Art was founded in 2011 with the launch of La Victoire de Samothrace in collaboration with the Yves Klein Archives. Since then, it has worked with some of the world’s finest artists and architects, including Anish Kapoor, Arik Levy and Mario Botta.
In the creation process of the art pieces, Lalique and its artist collaborators work hand in hand. The artists work closely with the artisans at Lalique’s sole factory in Alsace and with the Paris creative team headed by Lalique artistic and creative director, Marc Larminaux. Founded in 1888, Lalique has a history of artistic tradition and collaboration and celebrated 100 years of its factory in Alsace last year.
Frederick Fischer, UK managing director said, “We are delighted Lalique has chosen London to launch its first Art Gallery – the only space dedicated solely to Lalique Art and the first in the world of its kind. It is a space we can focus on Lalique Art in all its forms, creating custom curations that will be complementary to our boutiques that specialize in Lalique decorative items, furniture, jewellery and perfumes.”
Burlington Arcade’s Head Beadle Mark Lord commented: “We are honored to have been the home of Lalique’s UK boutique for six years, and we are excited to welcome Lalique’s first Art Gallery in the world to our historic retail destination. We look forward to continuing to be a part of the Maison’s history.”
In addition to three London boutiques, Lalique has two other UK boutiques – at Bicester Village and in the heart of The Glenturret Whisky Distillery in Scotland, which is also home to The Glenturret Lalique Restaurant, awarded a Michelin star just seven months after opening in July 2021.
About Lalique
Founded in 1888 by renowned and avant-garde artist René Lalique, Lalique is one of the crown jewels of France’s crystal glass houses. Lalique is a symbol of unique know-how and craftmanship, a lifestyle luxury brand with an immediately recognizable style. Lalique enriches our everyday lives, bringing artistic style to singular creations in six areas: decorative items, interior design, perfumes, jewellery, works of art and hospitality.
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Gallery Collectional is a high-end design gallery located in Dubai’s Eden House. Opened in 2022, it is Dubai and the region’s first-ever permanent gallery showcasing collectible design, and it has since taken the lead as a regional authority. With a concentration on commissioned and limited-edition pieces, the gallery fuses a traditional gallery with a high-end design concept. Gallery Collectional offers more than just furniture, presenting unique pieces many consider works of art.
The gallery ethos is to provide a handpicked range of items only produced in small quantities by forming connections with well-known designers from around the region and the world to create rarer treasures and one-of-a-kind pieces that match the vision of a discerning clientele. This is achieved through the gallery’s extensive network of designers and brands.
High-end furniture, lighting, and various works of art are among the exclusively commissioned pieces vetted by a team of experts at Collectional, ensuring they meet the highest standards. Collections at the gallery are constantly changing with every season, and adding new pieces to the gallery is an ongoing story that evolves with every collaboration or artistic vision.
The gallery has also hosted various artists from around the region and the world, showcasing their work, artistry, and the inspiration behind their ideas. These events have been instrumental in bringing together clients and artists to interact in understanding the creative process and vision behind many pieces.
Unlike anything in the region, Gallery Collectional has become the standard for collectible design and a reference point among regional and international buyers—a destination for people who value one-of-a-kind collectible pieces.
Picture Credit: COLLECTIONAL
Location: Eden House
About COLLECTIONAL
Gallery COLLECTIONAL presents exclusive commissioned design pieces and a curated selection of our favorite art and design from around the globe. Along with its Design Platform offers a comprehensive turnkey solution for projects, including services to support interior design and procurement for furniture, lighting, surfaces and décor that vary in size and spans across the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) and beyond.
The LiFE Gallery by ViDERE Aquariums is a one-week exhibition showcasing an art gallery of nature aquariums and natural art, all curated to inspire ideas about how we can incorporate nature into our business and commercial spaces.
Sponsored by Interface and in association with Allemuir, the event will take place at The Senator Group Showroom in Birmingham from Monday 9 March – Friday 14 March. Kicking off the official opening of the gallery with a tour by ViDERE Founder, Akil Gordon-Beckford followed by a CPD Table Talk “Brand from Biophilia” at 6pm on the 9 March. This will be a presentation covering the link between nature, interiors and human wellbeing, as well as an overview of the Workplace Stress Study he and his team carried out in 2019.
Throughout the week there will be workshops, events, and talks as well as live stream interviews introducing you to the amazing world of Aquariums, Human-Centred Design and BIOPHILIA.
“Incorporating nature into our physical environment creates the social context for happier and healthier people, positively contributing to the community and culture that they are a part of.” – Akil Gordon-Beckford, Curator
The event is free to attend. To register for tickets, click here.
This week’s instalment of the #SBIDinspire features the remarkable design of the Cumberland Art Gallery Suite located within the grandeur of Hampton Court Palace.
The Cumberland Art Gallery is a dedicated space that allows visitors to view artworks from the Royal Collection in a stunning setting, which reflects the Palace’s history as a destination for the work of artists such as Holbein, Caravaggio and Gainsborough. The Gallery occupies a newly restored suite of rooms designed by William Kent in the 1730s as private apartments for the Duke of Cumberland.
With architects and designers Purcell, Hoare Lea Lighting developed a scheme to illuminate the paintings while minimising impact on the sensitive building fabric. Hoare Lea CGI combined its expertise in the niche area of accurate lighting visualisation with a mastery of 3D-modelling and physically-based rendering tools, such as 3ds Max and Vray, to create photo-realistic visuals. The resulting visualisations (created without the benefit of CAD drawings) accurately represented the final, relit Gallery and proved highly effective in communicating design ideas and showing how the Gallery would look.
SBID had the opportunity to speak with Simon Dove, Associate at Hoare Lea & Karam Bhamra, Principal CGI Designer of Hoare Lea.
Company: Hoare Lea
Project: Cumberland Art Gallery Suite
Project Location: Hampton Court Palace, England.
What was the client’s brief?
The Cumberland Gallery at Hampton Court Palace is a dedicated space for artworks from the Royal Collection. It enables visitors to view the artworks in a stunning gallery setting, which reflects the palace’s history as a destination for the work of artists, such as Holbein, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Bassano and Gainsborough. The Gallery occupies a newly restored suite of rooms designed by the architect William Kent in the 1730s, as private apartments for George II’s son, William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland.
The brief given to architects Purcell and the lighting design team at Hoare Lea was to return the Cumberland Suite as closely as possible to Kent’s original scheme. Historic Royal Palaces wanted to create a dedicated space to highlight some of the works of the Royal Collection, and to use Art as the lens through which to understand the royal history, stories and material culture of the Palace.
What inspired the design of the project?
With architects and designers Purcell, Hoare Lea developed a scheme to illuminate the paintings, while minimising impact on the sensitive building fabric.
While remaining faithful to the architecture and finishes, the intent was for the environment to have the feel of a gallery, and the lighting immediately announces that this is a different type of space. Picture rails supply power to LED spotlights, which highlight the paintings. Although, Tungsten has often been used in gallery settings, the quality of the white light now produced by LEDs, together with benefits, such as energy efficiency, small size, high-colour rendering of 95+, warm colour temperature, ease of dimming and the lack of ultraviolet light created, made LED an ideal choice.
The look of each fitting was carefully considered to ensure the scheme complemented the space during the day, as well as enhancing it at night. These fittings, developed in favour of the traditional linear picture lights usually specified in heritage buildings, give a contemporary elegance to the rooms.
To incorporate flexibility, achieve the precise lux levels required, and create the desired visual impression, individual dimming control of every fitting was important. Simon Dove, Associate, Hoare Lea explains: ‘It was a key requirement to dim each luminaire from within the space, rather than from a remote location or via a complex lighting control system.”
What was the toughest hurdle your team overcame during the project?
Understanding the heritage of the space, while creating a contemporary solution, was crucial. Simon Dove explains, ‘Working within a listed building such as Hampton Court inevitably presented challenges, and mock-ups were used to explore the implications of introducing light fittings and to communicate design ideas.’ For lighting designers, one of the biggest challenges is to communicate the lit impression of their proposed designs, and this is where our use of specialist visualisation came in. Hoare Lea CGI combined its expertise in the niche area of accurate lighting visualisation, with a mastery of 3D-modelling and physically-based rendering tools (such as 3ds Max and Vray) to create photo-realistic visuals. The resulting visualisations accurately represented the final, relit Gallery and proved highly effective in communicating design ideas.
In terms of hurdles we faced for the visualisation of the project – there were no existing plans, drawings or models of the Cumberland Suite. A survey was carried out to obtain basic room dimensions, but this did not include any of the bespoke, heavily ornate detailing present in each room. Producing accurate and realistic 3D scenes to give as true a representation as possible of the proposed refurbishment – including new paint, material finishes, furnishings, artworks and of course the lighting scheme – was a challenge.
The only option was to build our 3D models from reference photographs, which we took on-site. Every room has a different feature ceiling design and none of it was simple! Making sure we captured and modelled all the necessary detail was a difficult and time-consuming task – but well worth it when you consider the realism of the final result.
What was your team’s highlight of the project?
‘The lighting was carefully designed to provide beautiful illumination of the paintings using the latest LED technology, but minimising the impact on the sensitive building fabric. The result greatly enhances the artwork and the room’s architectural features.’
The Historic Royal Palaces team we worked with know the spaces intimately, so for them to commend the accuracy of our visualisations was very satisfying. The positive feedback Hoare Lea received regarding how valuable the visuals proved in communicating the design proposals was unanimous across the team.
Why did you enter the SBID International Design Awards?
We had followed the SBID Awards Visualisation category but had not previously submitted our work. This time we thought we would give it a shot as the Cumberland Suite project seemed very different to the visualisation projects usually entered. We felt its uniqueness and the way the lighting design and visualisation worked together to play such an integral role in the project delivery, deserved recognition.
Winning an SBID International Design Award is a real achievement as the Awards are regarded as one of the highest accolades of interior design excellence.
Commenting on the award win Karam Bhamra of Hoare Lea said: “It means a lot to us to have the quality of our work recognised by the judges. We didn’t think we would win as this is the first time we have entered the SBID Awards and the standard in the category is really high… we are absolutely delighted!”
Questions answered by Simon Dove, Associate, Hoare Lea & Karam Bhamra, Principal CGI Designer, Hoare Lea.
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