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Setting up shop in Pride Park, the fair will host over 35 gallery and 19 Curio exhibitions (total environments of objects, textures, artefacts and ideas designed to challenge conventional design narratives) alongside partnerships and collaborations across the neighbourhood. As ever, the galleries will show a mix of rare and exclusive pieces of 20th-century design, and never before seen contemporary work. Moderne Gallery’s strong selection of mid-century collectables includes, for example, George Nakashima’s first furniture design: the Karuizawa chair (1935), made for St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Karuizawa, Japan.

Exciting new gallery work includes Martin Rusak’s Flora Contemporaria collection at Twenty First Gallery featuring four limited-edition cabinets that are modern reinterpretations of Josef Frank’s iconic Flora cabinets. HOUSE OF TODAY will install a solo exhibition of work by Lebanese designer Khaled El-Mays showing work made in collaboration with craftspeople in Mexico City; the five-piece series, entitled New Nature, features two mirrors, a bar, bench and the designer’s first-ever chair, made from leather, wood, raffia, and wicker as well as ceramics.

Ceramics will have a good showing, with the Southern Guild presenting an exhibition of pieces commissioned for the fair from four of South Africa’s standout clay artists, Andile Dyalvane, Zizipho Poswa, Madoda Fani and Chuma Maweni, while Mindy Solomon presents ‘Free Flowing Geometry’, a striking show of works by John Gill, Kelsie Rudolph, and Minkyu Lee.