Chroma collaborators are industry-leading creative visionaries, prolific polymaths—and amazing humans. In the Heartwood, generation-defining artists find new fluency together, translating their artistry across distinct facets of design.

Gio Ponti

Chest of Drawers, 1955
Walnut and mahogany

The prolific Italian architect, artist, and designer Gio Ponti (1891–1979) evolved the modern aesthetic in iconic works, emphasizing the harmony of structure. Insatiable for innovation with a predilection for contradiction, Ponti embraced both traditional and modern materials and techniques, vigorously advocating for mass production while revering artisanal craft, and evangelizing function while indulging his passion for adornment. Influential in his own time, Ponti’s exuberant approach continues to resound around the world.

Julian Mayor

Lunar Table, 2013
Mirror polished stainless steel
Edition of 12

Known for sculptural works in welded sheet metal, British artist and designer Julian Mayor is interested in how light and shade allow a form to be read. The surfaces of his works act as a foil to differing daylight conditions and throughout the seasons. Monumental yet approachable, they invest the viewer in a perceptual dialogue of scale and a physical interaction with their surroundings. Mayor’s work has been exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, among others.

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Richard Serra

Right Angle I, 2019 
One-color etching and Paintstik 
18 x 15 in.
Edition of 48 

One of the most significant artists of his generation, San Francisco-born minimalist Richard Serra is renowned for sculptural volumes that interrogate the experience of perception by destabilizing the viewer’s sense of space. The artist is also celebrated for his printmaking practice, emphasizing radical physicality through a densely layered, labor-intensive process. His works are held in the collections of the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Dia: Beacon in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.

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