It is a unique collection of pieces of furniture designed and manufactured during early and mid Twentieth Century known as the Modernist era. This period, characterized by great aesthetic changes and the opening of Mexico to international influences, was also the confluence of numerous proposals in the field of industrial design. Functionality, use of new materials, manufacturing, durability and economy were some of the keys to what can be considered the golden age of functional furniture, that is, furniture designed for all
kind of people.
Encounter narrates the experience and scope of Mexican modernism through furniture. Each of its pieces is also an experience, a piece of the individual daily relationship with urban interiors. Modernism here is not a premeditated aesthetic, but the result of combining different disciplines, from industrial design and architecture, to the material relationship with art and plastic arts, for the enjoyment of the viewers.
The collection now on display is above all the result of patient observation, the stroll of an eye and a taste matured over more than fifteen years in numerous markets and public spaces: old city markets, antique dealers; studios, parks and squares, museums, institutions, stores, private and public buildings, houses and residences in the boundless Mexico City. The result of these researches is summarized in this collection of furniture conceived by Mexican and foreign
industrial designers, architects and artists whose careers were developed in Mexico. Among them, there are some that have become iconic pieces and there are also great names in art, architecture and design. But it is, above all, a history of taste and passion for certain objects.
Through this exhibition, I invite you to share that look, to come into contact with this world that deliberately and for decades sought to establish, through experimentation, the modern and still current proposal of that everyday object we call furniture.
“It is not necessary to have a historical background to know the modernism of the twentieth
century, simply the lines, manufacture and materials of the pieces define its conception and
beauty”