ARGENTUM COLLECTION
In 2024 GARRIDO celebrates 70 years of craftsmanship. To mark such an occasion, the company will launch the Argentum Collection. The word Argentum is Latin for silver, which connects and celebrates the link between the history of Spanish silverware. This connection lies at the root of our oeuvre and represents the prevailing medium of GARRIDO creations.
The Argentum Collection marks our achievements as masters of silverware and aims to bring further awareness to this unique and challenging craft. The collection will feature a limited series of works handcrafted by GARRIDO and designed in collaboration with remarkable artists, designers, and architects. Peter Marino, Ross Lovegrove, Nacho Carbonell, Ghada Amer & Campana Brothers are just a few of the world-renown figures participating in this project. Their artistic vision will be translated by our master silversmiths into objects d’art executed in precious metals, celebrating artistic unity and the notion of gesamtkunstwerk.
In return GARRIDO will act as a lead consultant focusing on the production processes, opening the doors of its silver atelier to share decades of expertise as master craftsmen. Enlisting the experience of a renown art collector, master silversmiths, eminent artists, designers and architects, the Argentum Collection will be a truly sought-after masterpiece, an epitome of design and craftsmanship. These exceptional objects d’art designed by leading figures of art and design with the modern client in mind will contribute to rejuvenation of the neglected art of silver.
GUEST COLLABORATORS
The guest artisans will play the role of designers, focusing on developing and composing concept design for the silver pieces. The artisans will have complete freedom of creativity in the designing processes. In turn, GARRIDO will act as a production consultant, assisting the artisans in the selection of applied techniques and styles to the silver objects.
CAMPANA STUDIO
Designers Humberto & Fernando Campana
Co-founded in 1984 by brothers Fernando (1961) and Humberto (1953) Campana, the Campana studio has achieved international recognition for its furniture design and intriguing pieces. In 2019, the studio celebrated its 35th anniversary acknowledged as a pioneer of disruptive design, which led them to create a groundbreaking language in their field.
Deeply rooted in Brazilian culture and traditions, their work carries universal values at its core, such as freedom and human dignity, creating their identity through life experiences. By incorporating the idea of transformation and reinvention, their creative process raises everyday materials to nobility. Brazilian characteristics - such as the abundance of colors, mixtures, and creative chaos - bring the triumph of simple solutions, poetically.
Based in São Paulo, Campana is constantly investigating new possibilities within Design: from furniture making to architecture, landscaping, fashion, scenography, and more.
Bridging disciplines and encouraging the exchange of expertise among communities and artists are vital sources of inspiration, fresh repertoire, and free-thinking. Working with multiple brands and industries allows them to combine the best of craftsmanship, sustainable production practices and state-of-the-art technologies.
The Campana Brothers are currently listed as one of the world’s top iconic architects at Interni (2018). In 2015 and 2014 Wallpaper ranked them, respectively, among the 100 most important and 200 greatest design professionals. In 2013, they were listed by Forbes magazine among the 100 most influential Brazilian personalities.
PETER MARINO
Architect and interior designer
Peter Marino, AIA, is the principal of Peter Marino Architect, a 160-person, New York–based architecture practice founded in 1978. Working globally across a broad range of project types and scales, Marino is widely credited for redefining modern luxury through equal emphasis on architecture and interior design. The practice is recognized for its award-winning residential, retail, cultural, and hospitality projects worldwide. Well known for integrating art within architectural designs, Peter Marino has commissioned more than 300 site-specific works of art.
PMA projects currently in design or recently completed include a new 10 story flagship for Tiffany & Co. in NYC; a new ground up building for Chanel in Los Angeles; Cheval Blanc hotel in the historic ‘La Samaritaine’ in Paris; a flagship for Dior on Avenue Montaigne in Paris; a flagship for Bulgari in Place Vendome, Paris; a new building for Chanel in Miami; a complex of buildings in Greece; a Louis Vuitton flagship in Ginza, Tokyo; an art foundation in Southampton, New York; condominiums in Miami; numerous private residences worldwide.
Peter Marino’s distinguished honors include 22 citations from the AIA for architectural design excellence.
GHADA AMER
Artist
Ghada Amer was born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1963. In 1974, her parents relocated to France where she began her artistic training ten years later at Villa Arson, Nice, France. She currently lives and works between New York and Paris and has exhibited among others at the Venice Biennale, the Sydney Biennale, the Whitney Biennale, and the Brooklyn Museum.
Ghada Amer is an internationally recognized artist with a vast range of works that include not only painting, but also bronze sculptures, clay ceramics, prints, installations, videos, and outdoor gardens. She is represented by major galleries in New York, London, Korea, and South Africa. Her works are sought after by private collectors, and are a permanent part of key museum collections around the world (including for example the Centre Georges Pompidou, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Barjeel Art Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Arab Museum of Modern Art and the Fond National d’art contemporain).
ROSS LOVEGROVE
Industrial designer & experimental thinker
Ross Lovegrove is one of the world’s most acclaimed and influential designers best known for utilising the latest technology to create futuristic, organic forms; he has applied his signature style to everything – from computers and bicycles to fragrance bottles, chairs to lighting, bathroom sets to speakers, aircraft seats and staircases to concept cars.
Along the way, Ross has also helped shape products for Sony, Apple, and LVMH, among many others. His designs can be found within the permanent collections of MoMA, the Centre Pompidou and the Vitra Design Museum, and have previously been exhibited in the Design Museum in London, as well as the Guggenheim Museum and Philips De Pury in New York.
NACHO CARBONELL
Artist and designer
Born in Spain in 1980, Nacho Carbonell graduated in 2003 from Cardenal Herrera C.E.U. University in Spain before going on to study at Design Academy Eindhoven. After graduating, Carbonell immediately began to make a name for himself in the design world, with his 2009 Evolution collection earning him a nomination for the Beazley Design of the Year from the Design Museum in London. In 2010, a year after being named as a Designer of the Future at Design Miami/Basel, he presented this Identity, which redefined his style of organic forms and rough and colourful textures.
Carbonell is known for his tactile approach to sculpture, playing with texture, experimental techniques, and natural materials. His approach is unique, seeing objects as ‘living organisms’ that come alive and surprise you with their behaviour. For Carbonell forming a relationship with his work is integral – he creates objects with his hands in order to impart something of his personality to them. He describes his pieces as “communicative objects that arouse one’s feelings and imagination... that allows you to escape everyday life.”
Carbonell’s designs are made using locally sourced materials he finds near his studio in Eindhoven.
His pieces are shown in museums around the world such as the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands, the 2121 Museum in Japan, Fnac-Fonds national d’art contemporai in France, in the MoMA San Francisco, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Mint Museum in the United States. His pieces are also found in several private collections.
OUR AIM
The Argentum Collection will be launched at GARRIDO GALLERY, Serrano Anguita 7, 28004 in Madrid, where we will present the pieces to our most infuential patrons with the coverage from leading press agencies. There, with the support of the press provided by the directors of the fair, the Argentum Collection will receive wide exposure to numerous institutions and collections.
To bring further awareness to this collaboration featuring unique silver objects of art designed by the most prominent artisans of our age, the Argentum Collection will be scheduled for a tour to the most important cultural capitals: Paris, New York, and London. We will shortlist the most decorous contemporary art and design gallery to represent GARRIDO and facilitate the launch of the Argentum Collection, employing only the top-tier galleries that specialize in the highest quality contemporary art. Additionally, the collection’s launch will accompany the publication of a bilingual catalog.