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Friedman Benda is pleased to present Misha Kahn’s All Intensive Purposes, celebrating a decade of collaboration with the gallery, now on view through December 12.
With All Intensive Purposes, Kahn has produced a body of work that follows a tangent. All Intensive Purposes upends the familiar phrase “all intents and purposes,” shifting focus from a predetermined end to the intensity of getting there. It reflects a creative process that is intentional but unknowable. Precise choices are made in a vacuum, where structure and form answer only to Kahn’s own logic. He builds his objects through layers of material experimentation and cross-pollination, with incidental and unlikely outcomes continually added back in. @mishakahn
Misha Kahn: All Intensive Purposes / Friedman Benda, NY / October 29 - December 12, 2026
📸: @ryan.michael.petrus
#mishakahn
03 Nov 2026
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Country Potter: Maxwell Mustardo
Nov 12th-14th
Pictured: Teal & Yellow Krater
Glazed ceramic
18.5" height x 26.5" width x 9.5" depth
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#ceramics #pottery #design
02 Nov 2026
“All intensive purposes” opens tmrw night @friedman_benda ! This piece was made with blocks produced with @alpi_wood , using leftover slices we recomposed the colors into my dream wood. So the material went from tree to ply to block back to tree. Two years ago my studio moved to the woods, the squirrels like to come in to hide their walnuts in the workshop and they show up in the most unexpected places.
28 Oct 2026
My show “All Intensive Purposes “ opens this Thursday @friedman_benda (6-8)! A tumult of work , in wool, wood, metal, stone and glass . (In this one , our painted muslin patterns were translated into wool by @jgswitzer , and thoughtfully all put back together by @edisonsupholsteryservice ). 📸 @ryan.michael.petrus
27 Oct 2026
Dolmen Armchairs and Waterfall Library Curve, 2026 by @raphael_navot
📸: @jpvaillancourtimages
@padesignart / Booth B2 / October 13-18, 2026
#RaphaelNavot
16 Oct 2026
In early 1951 Carlo Mollino was approached by Mario Lattes, who had recently assumed directorship of the eponymous publishing house. Mollino’s instruction was to reinterpret the interior spaces with furnishings that reflected the company’s modern and refined style. His most effective interiors, of which Lattes is included, evolved direction from myriad and diverse interests fermented to a metaphysical whole. The pair of oak and chestnut chairs and desk transcribe directly from Mollino’s fascination with traditional robust Alpine furniture.
Mollino’s interiors and the furniture represented an ongoing evolutionary narrative, as expression of content and innovation of form matured according to context. These works were executed during the apex of Mollino’s creative influence, fluently revealing the synergetic alliance of technical pragmatism with the coded, personalised symbolisms upon which his important legacy is defined. - @sandrewsdesign
Writing Desk “Casa Editrice Lattes”, 1951 and Chairs “Casa del Sole”, 1954 by #CarloMollino
@paddesignart / Booth B2 / October 13-18, 2026
📸: @wearecontents, @fabricegousset
14 Oct 2026
For Friedman Benda’s participation at PAD London 2026, the gallery is pleased to present a group installation of works by designers across generations and disciplines. This includes @andrea_branzi, @carmendapollonio, @andiledyalvane, @formafantasma, @mishakahn, @kaorikurihara.ceramique, @carlomollino_official, @raphael_navot, @pendleton.adam, @samuelross, @t_o_o_g_o_o_d, @jonathan_trayte, @thaddeuswolfestudio
@paddesignart / Booth B2 / October 13-18, 2026
📸: @wearecontents
13 Oct 2026
In celebration of Faye Toogood’s new studio in London, Friedman Benda is pleased to present a selection of key works from the designer’s decade-long collaboration with the gallery.
Spoon Chair / Moon (2016) was unveiled in 2017 as part of Faye Toogood’s Assemblage 5. Cast in bronze, the silver nitrate patina evokes the moon’s centrality to cycles, one of three elemental forces explored throughout the series alongside water and earth. Through associations with femininity, fertility, nature, and spirituality, the work engages with an animistic understanding of the natural world, filtered through Toogood’s personal lens.
The four Maquette works come from Assemblage 6: Unlearning, a 2020 series that reflects Faye Toogood’s desire to “unlearn” the process of design and develop a new vocabulary. The playful qualities of rough-hewn maquettes, broken up by the corrugations of crumpled paper and masking tape, are recast at full scale as daybeds, chairs and consoles, manufactured in diverse materials including cast bronze, wrought iron and rough canvas. Taken as a whole, the collection suggests how deceptive first appearances can be.
12 Oct 2026
Friedman Benda will present three works by Kaori Kurihara for the first time at PAD London 2026. Working without preparatory drawings, Kurihara allows each piece to grow organically through her process, rooted in an intuitive fascination of the poetry in growth patterns of plants. “I don’t draw anything in advance as I let my works grow freely, and I don’t know the shape nor color until the process progresses. I want to express the brilliance of living beings because I live.” - @kaorikurihara.ceramique
Dancing Orange, Echos, Les nageurs de la forêt (swimmers of the forest), 2026 by #Kaorikurihara
@padesignart / Booth B2 / October 13-18, 2026
08 Oct 2026
Recent press highlights for Wendell Castle: Living 💫
On view at Friedman Benda, NY through October 17th
Thank you @financialtimes, @emmacrichtonmiller, @elledecor, @designboom, @thedesigneditmagazine, @adrian_madlener, @untappedjournal, @tiffany_jow, @gong.lucy
05 Oct 2026
To celebrate @friedman_benda's new exhibition, “Wendell Castle: Living” (through Oct. 17), the gallery and @untappedjournal organized an intimate evening that explored the remarkable experience of personalized domestic spaces through the lens of the late craftsman’s legacy.
@glenn_adamson walked guests through the show, followed by a conversation, led by Untapped’s editor-in-chief, @tiffany_jow, about what “making home” means today. It featured Alison Castle (@idealcheese), Wendell’s daughter and the exhibition’s curator, and interior designer Julie Hillman (@juliehillmandesign), who commissioned one of Wendell’s final pieces.
Tap the link in bio to watch the talk and tour on Friedman Benda’s YouTube channel.
Photos: @rebeccasmeyne
#untappedjournal #untappedideas
25 Sep 2026
Several important works pictured in the House Beautiful article—but not seen in public since—have been lent by the family to the exhibition. These include standout examples of Castle’s innovative sculptural designs in wood and in molded plastic (among the first furnishings made in this material in America), as well as Jurs’ functional and sculptural ceramics. “Today, these works are usually seen in museums,” notes Alison Castle, “but as furniture, they were made to be used. I want visitors to experience what it’s like to live with them.” To achieve this effect, a number of domestic objects from this vital creative environment will also be on view, displayed to suggest a kitchen, a bedroom, and living and dining rooms.
Wendell Castle: Living / Friedman Benda, NY / September 17 - October 17, 2026
@wendellcastle_official @idealcheese #WendellCastle
📸: @izzyleung
17 Sep 2026
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