Sorgin Gallery: a must for design lovers and art enthusiasts to find modernist designer furniture, sculptures, and contemporary jewelry
Sorgin Gallery: a must for design lovers and art enthusiasts to find modernist designer furniture, sculptures, and contemporary jewelry
The opening of a new space for art and design is always good news, especially if it comes from an expert with a career as important as that of Mírian Badaró. This Brazilian art dealer had dedicated more than fifteen years of her life to sourcing and selling unique pieces (representing a Brazilian gallery at the most important fairs in the sector held in America and Europe) when she decided to take the leap into founding her own space in San Sebastián: Sorgin Gallery.
Located in a historic building –an example of Basque vernacular architecture, over 200 years old– in Igueldo, the gallery is made up of an impressive sculpture garden with sea views, and it features several indoor spaces where a careful selection of modern Brazilian furniture is displayed, together with exclusive pieces by leading figures in the world of design and contemporary art who value, like the great modernist masters, organic materials and meticulous craftsmanship, forming an irresistible combination of tradition and innovation.
Among the vintage Brazilian pieces, one can find modernist design furniture by Joaquim Tenreiro, José Zanine Caldas, Jorge Zalszupin, Sergio Rodrigues, Geraldo De Barros, Martin Eisler, Carlo Hauner, Lina Bo Bardi, Jean Gillon, Giuseppe Scapinelli, Flavio de Carvalho, and Paulo Mendes da Rocha. These pieces from the 1950s and 1960s coexist harmoniously with those of contemporary creators such as the Belgian Adeline Halot, the French Dora Stanczel and Anaïs Vindel, the Swiss Fábio Hendry, the Brazilians Bob Wolfenson, Inês Schertel, Hugo França, Domingos Tótora, and Raul Mourão, as well as with objects from the Portuguese studio Mameluca, having participated in exhibitions at institutions as important as the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
Basque designs also have their place at Sorgin, where we can find works by Ricardo Ugarte, ancient anonymous handmade ceramic pieces, sculptures and sculptural tableware by Joseba Lekuona Yaben, contemporary jewelry created by architect Charo Casteres, as well as wool and silk rugs by Nanimarquina that pay homage to the pictorial works of Eduardo Chillida.
In opposition to the concept of a “non-place” introduced by anthropologist Marc Augé in 1992 (which includes many spaces created by “supermodernity”), Mírian Badaró has managed to turn Sorgin Gallery into an essential “place” for both design lovers and art enthusiasts.
Sorgin Gallery
Camino de Marabieta 26, San Sebastián.
Tel.: +34 616 803 905
