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"Thierry Despont's Cabinet of Curiosities Show\nThe architect and designer marries contemporary art from Marlborough Gallery and antique furnishings from the Paris dealership Steinitz in a captivating New York exhibition\nA view of the White Room in the \"Le Cabinet de Curiosit\u00E9s\" show at the former New York Mercantile Exchange building. The piece in the center of the room is a rare double-sided mechanical secr\u00E9taire, made in Paris around 1790 by Johann Gottlieb Frost.\nArchitect and artist Thierry Despont curated the exhibition.\nIn the Astronomer's Room, one of Thierry Despont's fictional-planet paintings, NB 03, from 2001, looms over an 18th-century desk by Pierre Garnier.\nArtworks in the Blue Room include Manolo Vald\u00E9s's 2009 sculpture Menina, Despont's 2006 anthropomorphic assemblage MS 05, and Four Red Papers, a trompe l'oeil painting by Claudio Bravo from 2011.\nVald\u00E9s's 1990 painting Masaccio como pretexto II hangs above his 2010 sculpture Dama a caballo.\nDespont's Mask 95, 2007.\nA 16th-century Italian bust of a woman sits on a pedestal next to Vald\u00E9s's Bookcase, a 2011 work in which pieces of wood are made to look, at first glance, like old books.\nThis room features cabinets filled with Despont's insectlike assemblages as well as some of his standing sculptures, and Bravo's 2005 trompe l'oeil triptych Eternum, resembling large paper-wrapped packages tied with string."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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