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SOFT BAROQUE is Saša Štucin and Nicholas Gardner, graduates of the Royal College of Art who form a dynamic duo based in London. Their artistic practice revolves around the creation of pieces that challenge conventional functions and imagery while maintaining a sense of beauty and consumer appeal. They delve into the growing dominance of digital representations over physical objects and question how design has shifted towards spectacle over practicality. Soft Baroque seeks to blur the lines between traditional furniture forms and conceptual art objects.

Their innovative work has been showcased at prestigious venues including the Victoria & Albert Museum, Christie’s, Aram Gallery, and 19 Greek Street in London, as well as the Swiss Institute in New York. They’ve also exhibited at A Palazzo Gallery in Brescia, Design Miami/Basel, and Collective Design fairs in New York City, among others. Their exhibitions have spanned across major cities like Milan, London, New York, Stockholm, and Dubai during Design Week, showcasing their global reach and influence in the contemporary design scene.

If asked to select one word to describe Patrick, I would resist and pick two. The first would be curiosity — a fundamental essential, to stimulate inquiry and rigour in all things, both great and small, of any era or region, type or surface. Even the most fleeting survey of this selection for sale is a celebration of innovation and of inspiration — an unerring eye for the unusually exceptional, or perhaps the exceptionally unusual. The chances are, that these are indeed discoveries that you have not yet realised that you needed to make. 

Mentor, would be my second word. If artefacts and objects articulate visual, cultural and historic language, then the fluency of skillful mentorship — to guide, nurture, describe and explain — releases the eloquence of murmuring histories. In this capacity Patrick is that most earnest and sincere of excellent narrators. If ever I had friends, clients or colleagues visiting New York looking for unusual inspiration, there was always the certainty that Patrick’s venues would offer them a glimpse of the hitherto unseen or the unusually seductive, always with the reassurance of the most fascinating story waiting to be told.