Introducing the Giobagnara Art Edition

Numbered editions in leather marquetry, curated by Nick Vinson.

Two inaugral collections open this new chapter for Giobagnara, one by Gary Hume, one by Martino Gamper.  Two artists of international standing, two wholly distinct visual languages, each translated into a series of limited and numbered objects; folding screens, chests of drawers, bar cabinets, wall panels, mirrors, umbrella stands, boxes, vases and trays, realised through Giobagnara's craft in leather marquetry.

'I've always obsessed about Petra dura, the Renaissance-era technique of marquetry in stone, as well as marquetry in wood and leather.  Giobagnara has the culture and skills to execute this in nappa, suede and calf and when Giorgio Bagnara and I started talking about what to do next, we both instinctively knew this was the right direction' says Nick Vinson, Wallpaper✷ contributing editor and creative director, who curated the project. 

Vinson proposed a complimentary duo of British artist Gary Hume and Italian-born London-based designer-alchemist Martino Gamper, both known respectively for their use of colour.

Vinson continues 'I collaborated with Martino Gamper on a pair of elevator cars for the new Italian Embassy in London and I felt he would enjoy swapping coloured laminate for calf leather and his wall panels, some with mirrored sections are decorative artworks to hang like paintings, likewise his set of abstractly shaped vases are very sculptural, so these feel like art' and 'Gary was the only choice for the artist, and together we selected around 14 of his paintings, from 1999 to 2020, to develop into beautiful objects. Hume paints on aluminium so it was natural to develop marquetry of aluminium and leather, something never done before, that requires the metal base to be 'scavato' or carved out with high precision, before the nappa or suede elements are inserted completely flush.  These are cabinets, vases, boxes, trays, screens but just as much artworks'.

All works are produced in numbered and signed editions of 12.