moss > Inaugural Exhibition

GLITTER AND SMOKE Friday August 3 to Saturday October 6

The opening exhibition is called Glitter & Smoke and is the first of several installations planned featuring chandeliers from the Swarovski Crystal Palace collection. Moss has exclusivity on the collection in California and New York, and is premiering an extraordinary new light by Georg Baldele, the Vertical Glitterbox. Moss has installed eighteen of these eight foot high crystal pillars, in clear, teak or peridot, creating a hanging crystalline garden surrounding a 1938 Steinway Baby Grand fire-sculpted by young Dutch designer Maarten Baas. The piano is part of Baas' Where There's Smoke collection for Moss. The Perished collection by Dutch designers Studio Job was conceived as a suite of furniture, including a table, traditional Dutch 'bench', screen, and pedestal, realized in precious hardened tropical woods, decorated with laser-cut inlays depicting animal skeletons. Each piece is hand-crafted in Massacar Ebony wood with laser-cut Bird’s Eye Maple inlays, and the collecdtion includes a plate with iconic relief imagery in cast bronze. Banquete chair with Pandas by Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana is part of a limited edition of 25, exclusive to Moss. Numbered and embroidered with the following: "Pandas Chair, Limited Edition, Campana Bros., No. 05/25, 2007", and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity, signed by the Campanas.		Petit Jardin bench by Tord Boontje is a studio work, produced in a limited edition of 10 pieces. The piece shown, number one, is the prototype, signed by the artist: "Tord Boontje, Petit Jardin, No. 1, 2006." It was first shown in the exhibition "The Forest of Karakusa" at the House of Shiseido, Tokyo, February 7-March 19th, 2006. Petit Jardin is laser-cut steel, zinc powder coated and can be used suitable outdoors. The 606 Universal Shelving System, designed by renowned German industrial designer Dieter Rams, has been produced continually since 1960. Over the last four decades, thoughtful additions and improvements, resulting from the extraordinary collaborative relationship between Dr. Rams and British manufacturer Vitsoe, have continued to refine this icon of intelligent, rational design. Clay Furniture by Maarten Baas address the issue of form-giving in industrial design, revealing, literally, the designer's 'hand' in this intimate process. Baas's use of the clay-modeling technique, traditionally employed in rendering the human form from life-study, magnifies the sculptural quality inherent in all functional objects. The collection includes dining chairs, side tables, benches, floor fans and a magnificent dining table.