Int. David Bauer’s Apt – NYC – Evening
Curated by Jenny Ulving McCabe in collaboration with Jackson Design.
Open to the public from 13 June 2023 until 16 September 2023 at Jackson Design, Sibyllegatan 53, Stockholm.
Summer closure: 23-30 July 2023.
Opening hours 31 July-14 August 2023: Monday to Friday, 12pm-5pm (Saturday closed) & 15 August-16 September 2023: Tuesday to Friday, 12pm-5.30pm, Saturday: 12pm-4pm.
Drawing on years of experience in film and TV as well as a passion for contemporary art and design, Jenny Ulving McCabe has transformed Jackson Design’s showroom into an experience of luxury that is both immersive and cinematic. Staged to look like a stylish, sumptuous loft in lower Manhattan, the convincingly inhabitable space is equal parts fantasy and reality. The décor, which features mid-century Scandinavian and Italian furniture by the likes of Paavo Tynell, Mario Bellini, Gio Ponti, Sven Markelius, Wilhelm Kåge, Carl Malmsten, Mario Ceroli as well as a selection of artworks by Georg Baselitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barry X Ball, Pae White have been carefully curated to suit the taste of a highly discriminating collector, David Bauer, who also happens to be a fictional character.
In the spirit of cinematic storytellers and style icons like Luca Guadagnino, Stanley Kubrick, Tom Ford and Anthony Minghella, Ulving McCabe has taken a character from her own screenplay and created an environment that tells us more about his personality, status and desires than could ever be gleaned from dialogue and costumes alone. Oozing wealth, style, comfort and confidence, every detail of the apartment has been carefully considered, from the lamps and rugs to the vases filled with fresh flowers and bowls of perfectly ripe fruit. The incredibly lush mise-en-scene is enhanced by a sense of intrigue that is pure cinema. Like an empty movie set waiting for actors to appear and bring the scene to life, Bauer’s home elicits a thrilling feeling of anticipation. The table is set for dinner and ambient music hums on the stereo. Wandering through the space–perhaps relaxing on a sofa or pausing to smell a blossom–visitors have a chance to “meet” their host before he emerges and the party begins. Haunted by an invisible yet omnipresent man of the house, David Bauer’s apartment is a place of privilege, intimacy and pleasure.