forthcoming future Wilmotte Gallery at Lichfield Studios: 133 OXFORD GARDENS, LONDON W10 6NE Email: info@tristanhoare.com All Contents © Copyright 1998-2010 Tristan Hoare Paola Petrobelli 18 September - 8 October 2010 Born in Padua Lives and works in London Wilmotte Gallery and Perimiter Art & Design are delighted to collabotrate on an exhibition of glass work of Paola Petrobelli for The London Design Festival. Born in Padua, trained in biology and a former international motor racing champion, Paola Petrobelli has based her glass design practice in London for more than ten years, working exclusively with Murano glass. In that time she has specialized in glass works for private commissions and art collectors in the UK, Italy and France and has extended her practice to public commissions in the world of luxury hotels and restaurants such as the Club at the Ivy in London. The installation at the Willmotte Gallery presents new work as well as the wall lights, ceiling lights and lamps Petrobelli has become known for. They are presented in both a gallery and domestic context. Petrobelli recreates her own living room in the space in order to highlight the interplay between the striking visual quality of the glass and its functionality.  All the works are infused with Petrobelli’s interest in the architectural quality of glass. The new brick-like modules are inspired by industrial elements of modernist design. However, unlike their flawless example ‘Accidents’ occur in these works manifested in the form of delicate glass insects inhabiting the space. These twists refer to the craftsmen of Italian Gothic stained-glass who would add tiny drawings such as spiders webs to the corner of a window as a private joke for their own expression and amusement.   d40 lamp