During a period of extraordinary prolificacy, from 2006 through 2008, Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job produced exceptional limited-edition works, usually en suite, of great power—tours de force in both conceit and execution, working expertly with a broad spectrum of materials and techniques, including papier-mache, cast and polished and gilded bronze, laser-cut marquetry, and modelled and hand-painted clay. Using iconic, pan-historic imagery spanning centuries, which in the same moment can be both heraldic as well as cartoon-like, the results are consistently monumental and yet somehow primitive, and generally read neo-baroque, clearly fantasist, iconoclastic, always humorous, and certainly more Mannerist than Modernist. Usually embedded with a strong narrative, their gorgeous, impeccably executed collections seem born more from a medieval, guild-like process than an industrial approach.

Moss has collaborated with Studio Job on several major collections and exhibitions, including “Perished” (2006), “Homework” (2006), “Robber Baron” (2006), “Graphic Paper” (2007), “Golden Still Life” (2007), and “Golden Biscuit” (2007), “Pyramids of Makkum” (2008), and “Bavaria” (2008). In addition to its New York and Los Angeles galleries, Moss has presented Studio Job in Milan, Italy, during the Salone del Mobile, and at Design Miami/Basel and Design Miami/Miami.

Collections represented in this installation:

• PERISHED, works in marquetry
• GRAPHIC PAPER, works in papier-mache
• ROBBER BARON, works in polished and gilded bronze
• BAVARIA, works in coloured marquetry
• HOMEWORK, works in polished bronze and wood
• GOLDEN STILL LIFE, works in hand-painted and gilded clay
• GOLDEN BISCUIT, works in hand-painted and gilded clay
• GOLDEN TINWARE, pewter gilded in 24k gold and
• PYRAMIDS OF MAKKUM, work in hand-painted and gilded clay