Carpenters Workshop Gallery

Carpenters Workshop Gallery

Loïc Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail, Founders of Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Established	2005
Location	London, Paris, New York
Founder	Julien Lombrail & Loïc Le Gaillard
Website	www.carpentersworkshopgallery.com

Carpenters Workshop Gallery is a contemporary art and design gallery with branches in London, Paris and New York. Carpenters Workshop Gallery represents upcoming and established designers such as Atelier Van Lieshout, Random International,Wendell Castle and Rick Owens.

Carpenters Workshop Gallery was founded in 2005 by two French entrepreneurs, Loïc Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail. The gallery has two spaces in London : Michael Road in Chelsea and Albemarle Street in Mayfair. In Paris, it has a gallery in Le Marais which opened in 2011 as well as a research and development center in the suburbs of the city. A fourth exhibition space opened in November 2015 at the heart of Fifth Avenue New York City. "When we started out, less than a decade ago, there was little connection between art and design. Since then, things have changed so much. We are pleased to see that now there are designers who no longer do industrial design; they are creating a new kind of discipline that is closer to art", - says Julien Lombrail about the concept of the gallery.

The gallery's first exhibition in 2006 showed paintings from Chinese artist Zhang Huan.

In 2010 Sotheby's and Carpenters Workshop Gallery organised a design exhibition in the gardens of Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England. Sculptures from designers Wendell Castle, Studio Job, Studio Makkink and Bey & Pablo Reinoso were shown for the duration of the summer.

In 2012 Carpenters Workshop Gallery dedicated an exhibition to the British collective Random International, called "Before the Rain" in their Parisian space. The exhibition was an introduction for a major art installation, « Rain Room », which was shown first at the Barbican in London and then at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.