Harold Mollet is presenting a selection of pieces from his inventory at the DS Galerie in January 2025. The choice of furniture and decorative objects on display at this event echoes the solo show by artist Alison Flora entitled “Solve & Coagula”, presented at the same time at the gallery.
By taking part in Paris Design Week, DS Galerie is confirming, with this invitation to Harold Mollet, its attraction for the meeting of styles and periods in dialogue with contemporary creation. The gallery is reinforcing its ambitious, multidisciplinary approach, a reflection of its generation, on the frontier between contemporary art and Arts and Craft, where contemporary art, furniture and design come together in singular events.
Harold Mollet has brought together a wide range of works embracing a broad spectrum of 20th-century decorative arts, reflecting his taste for eclecticism and his historical interests. In the gallery’s salon, pieces from the beginning of the century to the 1980s/1990s can be found side by side, both signed and anonymous. Continuing the “grand style” of decorator Henri Samuel, Harold Mollet creates a dialogue between the periods: a pedestal table by Carlo Bugatti is paired with a light by Silvio Coppola, and a wrought-iron lantern reminiscent of the work of the Marolles workshops illuminates a table by Pucci di Rossi.
Materials respond to each other and are presented in a variety of forms, from the worked glass of lamps by Marzio Cecchi to the coloured resin of François Chapuis, represented by a commissioned masterpiece. Decorative panels from an architectural project in France in the 1970s display their vivid hues and mysterious decorations in the gallery space, like an invitation to contemplation, a doorway into this cabinet of curiosities, conceived as the aestheticised workshop of an alchemist.