LONDON, April 1, 2022 – The Gagosian Boutique in London opened its doors at the prestigious Burlington Arcade. Located in the heart of Mayfair and situated close to the historic Royal Academy of Art, the ground floor boutique features an array of offerings, including prints and editions, Gagosian publications, rare books, exhibition posters, and artist-designed objects and apparel such as jewellery, sculpture, and decorative items.
The opening will highlight both the artist Cy Twombly and the fifth anniversary of the gallery’s celebrated print and online magazine, Gagosian Quarterly. The ground floor will feature items relating to the artists included in the Quarterly’s fifth-anniversary issue, including Alexander Calder, Chris Burden, and Jasper Johns. Upstairs, on the first floor, a rotation of small exhibitions, artist takeovers, and unique collaborations will be presented.
Situated just steps from Old Bond Street, the celebrated destination for luxury retail and fine art since the eighteenth century, the space has been designed by Caruso St John Architects. This Stirling Prize-winning architecture firm collaborated with Gagosian on the Grosvenor Hill and Britannia Street galleries in London and gallery locations in Rome and Paris.
The Burlington Arcade shop joins Gagosian’s successful retail location on Madison Avenue in New York and the recently relaunched online shop.
Millicent Wilner, a director of Gagosian since 2001, commented, “We are delighted to extend our presence in London to the historic Burlington Arcade. The jewellike shop offers an exciting opportunity to engage with existing and new collectors outside of our galleries and to present a creative and dynamic group of artworks and objects alongside books from our expansive publishing program.”
This spring, Gagosian will publish its 600th book. The gallery began publishing in 1986 and today its output rivals that of traditional arts trade publishers, averaging between twenty-five and forty books a year, including catalogue raisonnés, artist monographs, scholarly exhibition catalogues, and limited- edition artist’s books. Recent projects include Picture Books, a new imprint dedicated to publishing fiction by leading authors alongside contributions by celebrated contemporary artists, as well as Poetic Practical: The Unrealized Work of Chris Burden, a revelatory book that presents sixty-seven of the artist’s most ambitious unrealized projects.
