After a month that drew collectors abroad for Frieze, PAD, Art Basel, and Design Miami, the art and design sphere is shifting its focus back to New York. The headline event is Salon Art + Design, returning to the Park Avenue Armory from November 6-10. While the fair's blue-chip offerings will surely command attention, the city's galleries have mounted their own ambitious programs in tandem. Across Manhattan and Brooklyn, the below exhibitions are testing the limits of material and craft, revealing the depth of the city's creative talents, and introducing new voices shaping the collectible design landscape.These are the shows defining the season.
Where to See Stellar Collectible Design in New York During Salon Art + Design
November 3, 2025
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Featured & Related Artworks
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Featured Artist
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Alice Gavalet
After studying at ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres and the Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Alice Gavalet began her career working for major fashion and interior design brands, and with designer Elizabeth Garouste. In 2010, she decided to refocus on her personal creation and set up her own studio in Nogent-sur-Marne, filled with felt-tip sketches and lined with boxes, vases, mirrors, lamps and other unique original pieces. Her creative process begins with drawing, a daily discipline that enables her to formalize her thoughts and bring her new pieces to life. She then assembles different materials – ceramics, metal, wood, fabric – and geometric shapes, combining them with bright colors to create objects that are witty, strong and honest. To Gavalet, ceramics is a game. The playful aspect of her work can be seen at every stage of creation, which must be joyful and instinctive. Her innate sense of color and pattern is enhanced by her work in engobe, which she favors for its matte appearance, and by her spontaneous technique, using slabs and colombin. Her sources of influence range from textiles to art brut and the decorative arts, from Betty Woodman and Ettore Sottsass to Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet and Paul Cox. Her pieces are strong but unprovocative, imposing themselves naturally. It’s this signature that attracts attention in France and abroad, where she exhibits extensively in galleries, art centers and Parisian and international fairs. She exhibited her work at Paris Design Week 2020 and has been featured in Architectural Digest, the Financial Times and Wallpaper Magazine.
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