Bradley L. Bowers

by The Editors

Bowers has been developing his highly multidisciplinary practice for over a decade — creating everything from fashion accessories to textiles to ceramics from his studio in New Orleans — but started really making waves in the furniture scene a little over a year ago with a striking collection of paper lamps for The Future Perfect, a Best Contemporary Design award at Design Miami, a string of furniture experiments for Emma Scully Gallery, and a series of sculptural yet affordable lights for Gantri.

By Monica Khemsurov

Sometimes, sitting is beside the point.

By Adrian Madlener

Diverse work to entice dreamers and collectors – Emma Scully Gallery: Anti Chairs
It’s often said that there are too many chair designs out there, but all that this expression proves is that there are few iterations that truly break the mould. A new exhibition at Emma Scully Gallery on the Upper East Side seeks to challenge this perception by questioning certain societal norms.

By Jill Singer

Scully writes: “Much like the seminal MoMa design exhibition, ‘The New Domestic Landscape,’ circa 1972, ‘Anti Chairs’ is an exhibition in support of the designer’s role in sculpting patterns of behavior in society — providing tools for thought rather than functional objects for living.” To that end, each of these chairs has something that makes it … almost not a chair. 

By Diana Budds

Emma Scully’s “Anti Chairs” show brings together a few of the most experimental designers working today to consider furniture primarily as a conceptual rather than a functional object: Bradley L. Bowers, who made a puffy, iridescent armchair; Jumbo (the studio run by Justin Donnelly and Monling Lee), which contorted a metal barricade to make a bench; and Chris Wolston, who contributed an abstract carpet — his first-ever rug design. Ilana Harris-Babou, an artist who interrogates design culture, presents collages inspired by sitting down on a subway seat still warm from the previous occupant; the unsettling sensation sparked a hunt for images that show the butt imprints left on a chair and took her on a fascinating journey through, among other spaces, online fetish communities and furniture-repair blogs. 

By Camille Okhio

By Max Rakin

A chronic experimenter, Bradley L. Bowers moves among the worlds of furniture, lighting and jewelry, challenging assumptions every step of the way.

By Salvatore Peluso
Photos by Chris Mottalini

Eight international designers sent their ideas digitally to gallery owner Emma Scully, who had them made in a foundry in Virginia and exhibited in her new space in New York.

By Monica Khemsurov
Photos by Chris Mottalini

Emma Scully Gallery‘s latest show, Cast Iron, takes advantage of a concept we’ve always been surprised isn’t used more often: selling digital designs that can be fabricated close to the buyer, eliminating the need for shipping (and its consumption of CO2). Of course with 8 pieces by 8 designers all made out of heavy-ass cast iron, we’re not surprised Scully went this route; the ones in the show, however, were all made by the O.K. Foundry in Virginia. 

By Sheyda Khalilova

Cast Iron, an exhibition going from May 13 to June 25th, 2021 in Emma Scully Gallery in the Upper East Side of Manhattan is featuring works by Chenand Kai, Brecht Wright Gander Studio, Ryan Decker, Tellurico, Faissal El-Malak, Bradley L Bowers, Charlotte Kingsnorth, Nel Verbeke.

By Alia Akkam

All of the furniture, lighting, and decor showcased in “Cast Iron,” Emma Scully’s debut show at her namesake gallery on New York’s Upper East Side, is crafted from the same versatile material. Although Scully produced the pieces in collaboration with the family-run OK Foundry in Richmond, she commissioned digital designs for them from eight young designers around the world (Ryan Decker, Brecht Wright Gander, and Chen Chen & Kai Williams among them). The result is an eco-conscious (and pandemic-friendly) creative process that merges the industrial and the technological.

By Leo Lei

Cast Iron is a gallery exhibition presented by Emma Scully on view from May 13th – June 25th at Emma Scully Gallery on 16 East 79th Street in New York City. Scully commissioned eight artists from across the world to digitally design exclusive pieces of furniture, lighting or decor, in which Scully would then handle production with the help of O.K Foundry, a fourth generation foundry in Virginia.

By Bianca Felicori

Emerging gallerist and curator Emma Scully presents Cast Iron, her first show in New York, which premiered on May 13th.

By Romina Román
Photos by Chris Mottalini

American design gallerist and curator Emma Scully commissioned eight disparate voices around the world to create eight works in cast iron, pieces that are now being exhibited at her namesake gallery. Young designers made digital files that Scully later materialised as a symbol of the 19th-century industrial revolution. These pieces are now part of Emma’s inaugural exhibition in New York, Cast Iron, marking her return to her native city after 3 years of residing in Los Angeles. Cast Iron is on view until June 25, at Emma Scully Gallery, a quintessential Upper East Side exhibition room that the gallerist reimagined with the help of Brooklyn-based studio Wallpaper Projects.