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MOSS: LOS ANGELES
Opening August, 3 2007
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MOSS ANGELES
August 2007: the first Moss store outside of New York's Soho district opens its big glass door, on Melrose Avenue near the mouth of Melrose Place. 3500 square feet of cool optic white space bifurcated by a ten ton steel beam running straight from the door to the sales station. Paul Smith Big Pink to right of us, the Pacific Design Center Blue Whale to the left, and Marc Jacobs across the street. We got Maharam down the street and APC so close we can bang on the wall.
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GLITTER AND SMOKE
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.
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ALSO PRESENTING
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.
 Panda Chair by Campana brothers
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.
 Perished screen by Studio Job
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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.
Petit Jardin, Tord Boontje
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.
Clay furniture by Maarten Baas
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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. |
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Our Beverage Partner
All refreshments for Moss events are provided by our Italian wineshop, Centovini. Located in the same building as Moss Gallery and adjacent to Centovini restaurant, the shop offers an intelligently curated selection of wines from Italy. |
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