A spectacular building nestled amongst the residential streets of Ladbroke grove in North Kensington, radiates artistic energy.
Ladbroke Hall initially opened in 1903 as a car factory showroom of Clément-Talbot, is today an impressive creative venue, a stage for the Arts, owned by Julien Lombrail and Loïc Le Gaillard, founders of Carpenters Workshop Gallery. They have produced a space that showcase creative projects, innovative and artistic talent, contemporary design shown through their gallery, rooms exquisitely designed by renowned designer and artist Ingrid Donat, musical evenings, an award-winning Italian restaurant Pollini, and a breathtaking garden enchanting senses, home to a 1944 Prouvé House.
Light flowing into this grand creative sanctuary paves the way through to the vast rooms and stairway, revealing beautiful contemporary design artworks part of Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
The latest exhibitions on at Ladbroke Hall, the Summer Exhibitions, feature Marcin Rusak, Paul Cocksedge and Maarten Baas, each displaying works with both profound meaning and functional qualities, looking at notions that evoke time, reflection and memory, successfully curated with the works feeling embedded into the space.
Paul Cocksedge 'Reflections' exhibtion at Ladbroke Hall @ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Renowned great artist and designer Ingrid Donat, Editions Norma
@ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Vas Florum: Resina Botanica exhibition by Marcin Rusak exposes the use of flowers, plants and other organic matter within the alluring works on display, exploring the passage of time, decomposition and preservation.
Nature and art intertwining as the artist transforms natural forms into sculptural functional contemporary artworks such as vases and coffee tables, colours and patterns invigorating an object, evoking memories of people and places and referencing our environment.
The Resina Botanica tables cast in resin with patinated cast bronze bases, are inspired by Poland’s forests, by the trees, leaves, the varieties of floral species, the surface of a stone in a mountain river, water and lichens. The tables irregular shapes are informed by natural boulders found in the riverbed of the Solinka River in the Bieszczady Mountains Natural Park in Southern Poland.
MARCIN RUSAK, RESINA BOTANICA COFFEE TABLE BRONZE 200 BRUNSWICK GREEN, 2024, Resin, patinated bronze, flowers 38 x 200 x 116 cm
15 x 787.4 x 45.6, Edition of 8 plus 4AP @ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Flowers embed in resin structures in Rusak’s series Vas Florum showcase a variety of floral species, including orchids, roses, tulips, carnations, daisies, asters and hydrangeas.
The artist prolongs the lifecycle of plants and flowers, exploring our relationship with nature, preserving it into ethereal and sublime design.
MARCIN RUSAK, VAS FLORUM 31 ROSEAE, 2025, Resin, flowers, 44 x 40.5 x 30 cm 17.4 x 16 x 11.8 Unique @ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
MARCIN RUSAK, VAS FLORUM 29 HORTUS FLORIDUS III 2025, Resin, flowers, 45 x 39 x 30 cm 17.8 x 15.4 x 11.8 Unique
@ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
MARCIN RUSAK, VAS FLORUM 13, FLOS MONSTRUOSUS 2023, Resin, flowers, 46 x 41 x 31 cm 18.1 x 16.1 x 12.3 Unique
@ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
The exhibition Reflections by Paul Cocksedge presents key highlights from the acclaimed designer’s repertoire, where he pushes the boundaries of materials and engineering, repurposing materials into wondrous imaginative and original functional works.
On display is Poised created in 2013, a magnificent graceful steel sculpture which elicits paper-like lightness, yet is stable and balanced weighing around half a ton and functioning as a table.
Excavation Sliced Core Table from 2017, was created by Cocksedge after learning that his studio in London would be replaced with luxury flats and he was to be evicted. So he then extracted hundreds of cylinders from the studio’s floor transforming them into the impressive table on show.
The juxtaposition of concrete and glass can also be found in Cocksedge’s Slump series. Strength, softness and the impression of fluidity reflect back to the viewer.
The Squeeze series recreates three-dimensional soft circular forms into two-dimensional mirrors, creating flat reflective surfaces replicating a squeeze.
PAUL COCKSEDGE, POISED, 2013, Steel (Finish: Rust) 72 x 147.4 x 203 cm 28.4 x 58 x 79.9 in @ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
PAUL COCKSEDGE, SLUMP BUBBLE TABLE, 2020, Glass, Mild Steel 46.5 x 110 x 110 cm 18.3 x 43.3 x 43.3 in Edition of 8 + 4 AP
@ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
PAUL COCKSEDGE, SQUEEZE COMPOSITION #4, 2024, Mirror, Metal Frame 200 x 200 x 5 cm 78.8 x 78.8 x 2 in @ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
Reconstructing Time by Maarten Baas, showcases three new works from the designer’s Real Time series. His practice combines, conceptual art, craftsmanship, installation and performance. Childhood, nature, freedom and the passing of time are themes the designer brings out in his delightful thought provoking functional sculptures.
The magical like Real Time series are filmed performances screened on sculptures designed to resemble clocks, delving into the theme of time, encouraging the viewer to consider how we relate to the notion of time.
MAARTEN BAAS, JAN JUTTE CLOCK, 2025, Square walnut frame and passepartout, glass, digital equipment 67 x 67 x 10 cm 26.4 x 26.4 x 4 in
Edition of 8 plus 4 artist’s proofs (#1/8) @ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
MAARTEN BAAS, RECONSTRUCTION CLOCK 2025, Round black plain clay frame, digital equipment 69 x 69 x 10 cm 27.1 x 27.1 x 4 in
Edition of 8 plus 4 artist’s proofs (#1/8) @ Carpenters Workshop Gallery
The summer exhibitions on until the 30th August, reset and fill our minds and souls onto nature, the notion of time and memories, onto the ability for design to creatively address matters that surround us, alongside remaining functional. There’s a glorious and calming feel that sets in upon viewing these works in Ladbroke Hall, a sense of how design has and can impact us and our surroundings; being transformative, repurposing materials into new forms and shapes, making us question and think of the elements of our world and how we perceive the role of design.
Be sure to visit the Summer Exhibitions with works by Marcin Rusak, Paul Cocksedge and Maarten Baas, from Carpenters Workshop Gallery at Ladbroke Hall, on until 30th August 2025
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