Pied-à-terre

Michael Reid Murrurundi is delighted to present our collaborative exhibition Pied-à-terre. This ambitious project places exceptional new and collectable work by more than 25 leading contemporary artists in conversation with a curated selection of beautifully restored, finely crafted mid-century furniture from the collection of Eora/Sydney design specialist Zander & Co.

Our art-meets-design display unfolds as a sequence of immersive, evocatively layered living room vignettes, all staged within the Murrurundi gallery. While many featured artists’ works reflect expansive notions of home or present painterly scenes attuned to the gentler rhythms of the interior domain, the richly imagined scenography of Pied-à-terre is itself a paean to the pleasures of home – to the idea of art and design as embedded within an elevated vision of the domestic everyday.

A celebration of creative cross-pollination and the blurring of old boundaries between disciplines, Pied-à-terre reflects our growing desire to experience art and design objects in spaces that tell a story – eclectic, emotionally charged and mood-setting environments that hint at the idiosyncratic collecting tastes of the people who might live there. It’s a sensibility that similarly guides Amelia Zander of Zander & Co. and is on full display in her hybrid showroom, workshop and family home in Sydney’s Inner West.

“I think visitors actually enjoy seeing the furniture in a real home,” she says in a profile published by The Murrurundi Argus in the lead-up to the opening of Pied-à-terre. “It helps them imagine how the pieces might work in their own lives. There’s something nice about the overlap, letting the furniture be lived with, not just displayed.” Read the full story here.

Alongside Zander & Co.’s design pieces, Pied-à-terre assembles works by a stellar line-up of contemporary art stars – including many of the most acclaimed and in-demand names from the stable of artists represented by our flagship Eora/Sydney gallery. In Pied-à-terre, home is where the art is – and every element of the exhibition’s styled room sets is available to acquire, both in the gallery and online.

To discuss works from the series, please email colinesoria@michaelreid.com.au