Denver Art Museum is encouraging you to touch, sit and relax on this new art.
The Denver Art Museum has worked steadily and strategically to upgrade its design portfolio over the past decade, adding significantly to its long-overlooked holdings of furniture, textiles, fashion, graphics and architectural objects of every sort. The museum now possesses tens of thousands of colorful works, from desk chairs to dinner plates to cocktail dresses, spread throughout its various collections.
For both spaces, DAM turned to Mexico City-based Esrawe + Cadena, one of that country’s leading design teams, which developed entire environments for its classrooms and communal work areas, encompassing everything from custom furniture to wall coverings to hanging lamps. All the furniture is portable and convertible; light enough to pick up and place at will, or set on wheels so it can be moved around and reconfigured. Tables double as chairs. Benches can be used as storage. The pieces fully reject the idea of furniture as static objects; they are meant to serve a contemporary museum in motion.
Esrawe is known more for his architecture and Cadena for his graphics, but both are cross-educated and their duties are dependent on the project of the moment. They are not a typical design firm. Or what the designers themselves find interesting. Separately and together, they have worked on everything from office buildings to residential homes to temporary exhibition designs. Esrawe runs a respected art gallery in Mexico City called Masa. As a pair, they also have a popular perfume line called Xinú — fabulously packaged, of course, in spherical bottles — that they will soon bring to the United States.
They followed that up with the design for DAM’s 2020 “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism,” an exhibition that might have been a blockbuster if not for general anxiety caused by the coronavirus pandemic at the time.
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