The author Gerhard Puscala presents the gallery slavik in the jewelery magazin
GZ Art & Design

Gallery Slavik: Architectural innovation for jewelry presentation

The fashioning of a new Viennese jewelry gallery was taken as an opportunity to realise a completely new architectural construction for jewelry presentation.

Thus the Gallery Slavik can be seen as a pilot project in a certain sense.

As everywhere there is naturally also the danger in the design and construction of jewelry stores and jewelry galleries of becoming trapped in the schematic-conventional. New, actually revolutionary paths were entered by the architect.The task was, to design a gallery in a landmark-protected house in Himmelpfortgasse 17, in the centre of Vienna.There were three differently sized rooms in the historical building. They were connected by large, fixed elements, two long, straight wall boards and a steel rail. These elements take on different functions. The steel rail, as the longest element, just cuts through the opening door onto the street and supports a bronze disk, which appears to roll on it. Slideable and slewable glass showcases are hanging from the rail. The rail also carries the variable lightning. None of the fixtures touch the floor, not even the expandable showcase table, which connects two rooms. Should the street-side part of the gallery have to be kept free for some occasion, all of the showcases can be pushed along the rail and the wall boards to the back part of the gallery, just like in a train-station.

It is the aim of the gallery, showing international artistic jewelry of renowned artists, like Jaqueline Ryan from Britain, Yasuki Hiramatsu from Japan, Michael Becker from Germany, Joaquim Capdevilla from Spain or the Austrians Wolfgang Rahs, Helfried Kodre‘, and many others. In any way or the other they are considered being traditional guests at the gallery, returning in a rotation with other well known artists from other countries and their own native countries within a period of three years.

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