At Design Miami this past year, discerning eyes immediately zeroed in on Salon 94, whose booth displayed a series of cabinets by Italian iconoclast Gaetano Pesce. Holding court was not only gallery founder Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn but also, to much excitement, her new collaborator-Paul Johnson of Johnson Trading Gallery. "I had been looking for a design partner, a partner in crime, who could really get their hands dirty," notes Greenberg Rohatyn. "Paul is at artists' studios every day, talking about the underside of an object." After stealing the spotlight in Miami, the duo officially launched Salon 94 Design, in March, with a group exhibition titled Ghost Dog (a reference to Jim Jarmusch's 2000 samurai movie) at Greenberg Rohatyn's Bowery space in Manhattan. With their rosters of talent merged, Johnson and Greenberg Rohatyn are now organizing a group show in conjunction with the contemporary art gallery Maccarone that opens at Lever House on May 5, and plans are in the works for a permanent New York space. AD sat down with Greenberg Rohatyn, Johnson, and Pesce at the designer's Brooklyn studio to learn more about what's in store.
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