Les Ateliers Courbet
ABOUT
Founded in 2013, New York-based design gallery Les Ateliers Courbet has established a distinct program dedicated to promoting and supporting the meticulous work and ethos of rarefied master craftsmen around the world. For over ten years, the gallery’s consistent focus and curation bring light to the craftsmanship and design legacies carried on by the centuries-old ateliers and contemporary masters it represents across five continents. While rotating exhibitions highlight the ateliers’ ongoing design catalogues with new artist collaborations, adjoining salons and viewing rooms reveal a permanent display of design pieces selected from each atelier — bringing together contemporary creations and sought-after archival pieces that embody the time-honored techniques behind the work.
Furthering its mission, the gallery fosters new collaborations inviting international artists and designers to the ateliers of its master-artisans. The resulting work is presented through the gallery’s Editions Courbet catalog. Each piece is stamped and co-signed by the artisans and the artist, paying equal homage to the hands of the artisans behind the work. Over the years, Editions Courbet has initiated limited artist rugs collections by Frank Gehry and Vladimir Kagan, developed in collaboration with Sabine de Gunzburg and her team of master weavers in Nepal, as well as ongoing collaborations with Belgian designer Pieter Maes and European artisans such as art founders DeClerq & Ginsburg, Dutch master-woodcrafter Rutger Graas, French upholsterers Phelippeau and Jouffres, the French stone carvers of Marbrerie de Vitry and 3DW Italian woodcrafters. Other collaborations have included Israeli designer Raphael Navot and the Ateliers Saint-Jacques outside of Paris, Dutch designer Aldo Bakker with Wiener Silber Manufaktur Austrian silversmiths and the Viennese glassblowers of Lobmeyr, among many others. Today, the gallery represents over 50 traditional crafts carried on by esteemed artisans, mostly in Europe and Kyoto, Japan.
The gallery was born from French founder Melanie Courbet’s desire to share her deep appreciation for the unwavering dedication, the ethos and culture of appreciation that are common to master-craftsmen across the world and disciplines. With intent to support these enduring legacies, their values and traditions, the gallery tells their stories through objects that embody long lineages of artisanal dexterity. Rooted in Courbet’s extensive travels and collaborations with artists, designers and artisans around the world, the gallery is an homage to the painstaking work of today’s rarefied master-craftsmen.
Today, the gallery represents over 30 artist-artisans and master-craftsmanship lineages, including the Japanese marquetry tradition kept alive through the work of contemporary artist and master woodcrafter Shuji Nakagawa Mokkougei, the centuries-old weaving tradition of Nishijin, Kyoto perpetuated by thirteen-generation family-owned weaving atelier Hosoo, Vienna‘s on-going design and glasswork legacy with the six-generation glassmakers of Lobmeyr, and the fine porcelain heritage of France preserved through the work of its legendary porcelain manufacture Sèvres, among others.
ABOUT
Founded in 2013, New York-based design gallery Les Ateliers Courbet has established a distinct program dedicated to promoting and supporting the meticulous work and ethos of rarefied master craftsmen around the world. For over ten years, the gallery’s consistent focus and curation bring light to the craftsmanship and design legacies carried on by the centuries-old ateliers and contemporary masters it represents across five continents. While rotating exhibitions highlight the ateliers’ ongoing design catalogues with new artist collaborations, adjoining salons and viewing rooms reveal a permanent display of design pieces selected from each atelier — bringing together contemporary creations and sought-after archival pieces that embody the time-honored techniques behind the work.
Furthering its mission, the gallery fosters new collaborations inviting international artists and designers to the ateliers of its master-artisans. The resulting work is presented through the gallery’s Editions Courbet catalog. Each piece is stamped and co-signed by the artisans and the artist, paying equal homage to the hands of the artisans behind the work. Over the years, Editions Courbet has initiated limited artist rugs collections by Frank Gehry and Vladimir Kagan, developed in collaboration with Sabine de Gunzburg and her team of master weavers in Nepal, as well as ongoing collaborations with Belgian designer Pieter Maes and European artisans such as art founders DeClerq & Ginsburg, Dutch master-woodcrafter Rutger Graas, French upholsterers Phelippeau and Jouffres, the French stone carvers of Marbrerie de Vitry and 3DW Italian woodcrafters. Other collaborations have included Israeli designer Raphael Navot and the Ateliers Saint-Jacques outside of Paris, Dutch designer Aldo Bakker with Wiener Silber Manufaktur Austrian silversmiths and the Viennese glassblowers of Lobmeyr, among many others. Today, the gallery represents over 50 traditional crafts carried on by esteemed artisans, mostly in Europe and Kyoto, Japan.
The gallery was born from French founder Melanie Courbet’s desire to share her deep appreciation for the unwavering dedication, the ethos and culture of appreciation that are common to master-craftsmen across the world and disciplines. With intent to support these enduring legacies, their values and traditions, the gallery tells their stories through objects that embody long lineages of artisanal dexterity. Rooted in Courbet’s extensive travels and collaborations with artists, designers and artisans around the world, the gallery is an homage to the painstaking work of today’s rarefied master-craftsmen.
Today, the gallery represents over 30 artist-artisans and master-craftsmanship lineages, including the Japanese marquetry tradition kept alive through the work of contemporary artist and master woodcrafter Shuji Nakagawa Mokkougei, the centuries-old weaving tradition of Nishijin, Kyoto perpetuated by thirteen-generation family-owned weaving atelier Hosoo, Vienna‘s on-going design and glasswork legacy with the six-generation glassmakers of Lobmeyr, and the fine porcelain heritage of France preserved through the work of its legendary porcelain manufacture Sèvres, among others.
