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EMMETT MOORE stands as a visionary artist and designer, renowned for his technically rigorous interdisciplinary approach that challenges conventional boundaries between design and art. His practice delves into our connection with the built environment, employing processes drawn from architecture and industrial design to transform everyday objects into vessels of universal significance.

Utilizing primarily secondhand goods and discarded materials, Moore's work seeks to dismantle hierarchies within the physical world, elevating the mundane and highlighting the timelessness of utilitarian forms. Rooted in personal history and collective nostalgia, his creations demystify systems of value, stripping away authorship from form to allow functional objects to transcend their original purpose.

With institutional exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the RISD Museum and the Perez Art Museum Miami, Moore has left an indelible mark on the art world. He made history as the first designer from Miami to present a solo exhibition at Design Miami/, further solidifying his influence in the field. His work has garnered attention from renowned publications, including Art in America and Architectural Digest and his visionary creations continue to provoke thought and inspire audiences worldwide.

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.