The Natural Room at Sarah Myerscough Gallery
Photography by Sylvain Deleu.
We stumbled upon Sarah Myerscough Gallery at Design Miami a few years ago and since then, have not ceased to be inspired by Myerscough’s impeccable curation of contemporary handcrafted design by international makers. The London-based gallery has been working for over 20 years to promote a new breed of artist-designer-maker at the highest level by exhibiting at the world’s pre-eminent art, design and craft fairs. The gallery’s aesthetic focuses on material-led processes and a connection to the natural world, featuring pieces that boast organic material and form, with a special focus on wood.
Myerscough’s latest collection is The Natural Room, an approach to living through design that respectfully connects us to the natural world, aiming to create interior spaces that speak to our particular global moment, challenging us to focus our thoughts and reflect on our lives - while also proposing a long-term vision of how we might live in the future.
At this moment in time, it feels more important than ever to arrive back at a home that appeals to our inner need for sensorial invigoration, calms our minds and connects us to different worlds, makers and their communities. Each object of The Natural Room asks to be treasured as an heirloom in our families over time, instead of falling into the pitfalls and landfills of fast consumerism.
The collection is composed of handcrafted contemporary design and art pieces created by individuals often working with local communities. It involves ethical and emotional decisions to use slow-grown, organic materials and skill-based craft. The international artist-designer-makers included in the collection embrace these ideologies of sustainability and conscious sourcing to create beautifully crafted furniture pieces and sculptural objects in materials such as wood, jute, sisal, willow, and stoneware. Below are some highlights. sarahmyerscough.com
Ascension of 13 by Angela Damman
Handcrafted iron and sisal from the Agave plant, indigenous to Yucatán, Mexico.
Sisal Transformaciones by Fernando Laposse
Agave sisal, harvested and crushed, combed and knotted by hand.
Floating Towers by Cristian Mohaded
Hand woven simbol, a plant fiber native to Catamarca, home province of the artist in Argentina.
Participating Artists
ARKO, Japan - rice straw; Laura Ellen Bacon, UK - willow; Max Bainbridge of Forest + Found, UK - wood; Angela Damman, Mexico - sisal; Alison Dickens, UK - willow; Max Frommeld, USA - wood; Luke Fuller, UK - ceramics; Ernst Gamperl, Germany - wood; Joe Hogan, Ireland - willow; Felicity Irons of Rush Matters, UK - rush; Tim Johnson, Spain - natural grasses; Mami Kato, Japan - rice straw; Eleanor Lakelin, UK - wood; Fernando Laposse, Mexico - sisal; Peter Marigold & Tadanori Tozawa, UK/Japan - wood; Cristian Mohaded, Argentina - simbol; Gareth Neal, UK - wood; Michael Peterson, USA - wood; Marcin Rusak, Poland - flowers; Alida Kuzemczak-Sayer, UK - Himalayan paper; Diana Scherer, Netherlands - natural root systems; Domingos Totora, Brazil - recycled cardboard; and Nic Webb, UK - wood.