FOG Design + Artwork 2025 in San Francisco: the highlights
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At FOG Design + Artwork 2025 in San Francisco final weekend (23-26 January), one of many gallerists greeted guests from the consolation of a chair designed and handcrafted not by certainly one of his artists, however by his spouse. It was troublesome to overlook the metaphor introduced by this couple, who embodied the present’s biggest advantage: FOG marries artwork and design as an alternative of divorcing them. Seems, like some {couples}, the 2 are extra attention-grabbing collectively.
Throughout the honest’s tenth anniversary in 2024, San Francisco’s first branded ‘Artwork Week’ took form round FOG. In truth, inventive vital mass has been forming across the Bay lately and, on the 2025 honest, a robust roster of satellites settled in. ‘Works In Progress’ was the newest in a sequence of design reveals selling dialogue inside and across the Bay Space’s design and craft communities. Artists within the Sausalito Headlands opened their foggy coastal studios to guests throughout the Golden Gate Bridge. And on the Level Reyes Blunk Area gallery, opened in 2021 by the JB Blunk Property, a gem of an exhibition (‘Rio Kobayashi + Fritz Rauh’) paired portray with sculptural wooden furnishings.
Desk lamp from the ‘Folia’ assortment by Federico Stefanovich
(Picture credit score: Alejandro Orozco. Courtesy of AGO Tasks and the designer.)
In the meantime, inside FOG’s two pavilions on the historic Fort Mason Heart for Arts & Tradition, 59 worldwide galleries gathered, together with 13 underneath the rubric of FOG Focus, a showcase of rising artists and galleries. Straight-up artwork was nonetheless within the majority down the aisles however design – from furnishings and flatware to meals –was well-represented in cubicles and within the occasion’s suave facilities. BOG was a store of handmade books curated by writer and SF Artwork E-book Truthful co-organiser Luca Antonucci. Park Life hosted a pop-up store stocking the most recent concern of Apartamento beside some brilliantly obscure e book titles (together with one exploring a language developed by development staff utilizing adhesive tape). FOG MARKT greeted guests with ceramics by Len Carella, glassware by Jesse Schlesinger, and jewelry by Blunk Store (store the JB Blunk rings that gained a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025). A bistro in the principle pavilion even let guests preview an upcoming restaurant, to be referred to as Lucania, from the creator of the Marina District’s beloved A16.
Listed below are only a few of the highlights we discovered at FOG.
Our highlights from FOG Design + Artwork 2025 in San Francisco
Peter Blum Gallery, New York
‘Jolene’ eating chair
(Picture credit score: Peter Blum Gallery, New York)
She’s not one of many gallery’s artists, however Kate Casey created the seating that adorned its sales space. The ‘Jolene’ chair is constituted of regionally sourced hardwood with a reeded body. Casey weaves a single steady cotton twine onto the chair, which turns into each a loom and a canvas. Within the course of, she attracts on conventional tapestry strategies, impressed by the mix of this traditionally feminine craft with the traditionally male-dominated discipline of woodworking.
Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London
Christopher Kurtz, ‘Sheets Credenza’ with cabinets
(Picture credit score: Christopher Kurtz)
The Myerscough sales space was a trove of exquisitely crafted items: ethereal glassware by George William Bell, primarily based in Monterey, California, and big, driftwood-like dome lights by British artist and maker Nic Webb. Two ideas – nature and nurture and the perfection that arises from imperfection – got here collectively within the monumental split-log ‘Cleft’ cupboards by one other Brit, Peter Marigold, in his persevering with collaboration with Tadanori Tozawa’s Japanese woodworking store Hinoki Kougei. The ‘Sheets Credenza’ and the sculptural cabinets that float above it, by American (and former Martin Puryear studio assistant) Christopher Kurtz, have been as intelligent as they’re exquisitely crafted. The stacked cabinets seem like merely sculptural shims till they open outward to disclose drawers. Equal components artwork, artisanry and design, they float on the wall like magic.
Superhouse, New York
(Picture credit score: Courtesy of Superhouse)
Put in to resemble a parlour in a bourgeois, colonial-era Brussels house, Superhouse’s sales space factors to the Congolese origins of the Belgian Artwork Nouveau motion. Belgian-Congolese architect and inside designer Kim Mupangilaï created sinuous furnishings that explores how Nineteenth-century Belgian creatives co-opted the Congo’s uncooked supplies and cultural motifs. The accompanying collage-like tapestry by American fibre artist and painter Maris Van Vlack suggests a mesmerising arcade of stained-glass home windows. Woven by hand, it’s marked with stitches, drawing and portray after which constructed up with industrial jacquard strategies and stoll knitting to really feel layered – and laden – with reminiscence.
Hostler Burrows, Los Angeles
(Picture credit score: Joe Kramm)
‘Waves’ is a hand-tufted tapestry by Swedish graphic designer and artist Camilla Iliefski. She makes use of depth, gradients of color and contrasting hues to joyful impact. In case you’ve been searching for one other star of rug-based wall artwork so as to add to the sculptural, collaged work of Jonathan Josefsson and the swank, shag-forward creativity of Dimorestudio, Iliefski delivers.
Herald St, London
Matt Paweski’s Chair 1 (Melon) Chair 2 (Butter) Chair 3 (Avocado) Chair 4 (Rootbeer), Work Desk (Melon), 2023. On wall, Naotaka Hiro’s Untitled, 2024
(Picture credit score: Courtesy: Herald St, London)
Detroit-born, Los Angeles-based Matt Paweski’s work desk and chairs mix Jean Prouvé with Mecanoo and a Motor Metropolis native’s love of sheet steel. A sculptor and expert colorist, Paweski’s gratifyingly orthogonal items balanced out the blended media canvases close by. We simply want he’d flip extra of his paintings into furnishings.
AGO Tasks, Mexico Metropolis
‘Folia’ ceiling and flooring lamps
(Picture credit score: Alejandro Orozco. Courtesy of AGO Tasks and the designer.)
Yet one more expertise rising from Latin America, Mexican artist Federico Stefanovich handcrafted his ‘Folia’ flooring lamps utilizing carved stable wooden, brass sheet, and solid bronze. His natural kinds take their cues from crops, seeds, and fungi. The lights seem to relaxation in easy stability as a result of Stefanovich engineered every to rigorously distribute its weight.
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