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This dynamic group show features a selection of never-before-seen pieces from artisan metalworker Salvino Marsura in dialogue with Béton Brut’s contemporary design offering.

At its centre is a collection of ironwork mirrors by Salvino. Béton Brut has taken stewardship of a significant number of pieces from Salvino’s estate since his passing five years ago. The lesser-known Italian artisan (1938–2020) learned his craft in the workshop of sculptor and ‘iron poet’ Toni Benetton, and spent the next 60 years producing sculpture, furniture, objects and memorials in his hometown of Treviso.

Salvino’s ironwork art and furniture relishes in the manual aesthetic of the forge, giving voice to the raw metal and the processes of its manipulation, including sweltering heat, hammering, bending and welding. His distinctive hand marries elements of brutalism and traditional decorative arts.

Positioned in dialogue with Salvino’s work is a selection of contemporary design produced exclusively with Béton Brut.

Multidisciplinary designer and manufacturer David Horan shows his inaugural furniture collection, ‘Paper’. David utilises unconventional decoupage techniques to create a vegan vellum and ‘Dragon Skin’, honouring rare sources of heritage Japanese paper from Unesco sites. Born in Dublin, David worked for Faye Toogood and Michael Anastassiades before opening his own studio in 2021.

Archive for Space, the design studio of Arabella Maza and Stephen Maginn, shows their new ‘Alu’ collection. An exercise in imaginative modern metalwork, the limited furniture series is made from single sheets of unsealed aluminium.

Finally, multidisciplinary designer Grace Prince presents ‘Held Absence’, a collection in hand-patinated cast bronze and steam-bent wood developed while living in a traditional house just north of Kyoto. Grace works as a material researcher at ETH University design studio Material Gesture under Anne Holtrop in parallel to her practice.