The gallerist for contemporary furniture impresses with nobility and individuality.
Angela Weber's gallery, simply and aptly named Angela Weber Möbel, is located on the elegant Rämistrasse. Where potatoes were traded in the Middle Ages, today you'll find a uniquely curated gallery for contemporary furniture art. Specializing in 20th-century design from Scandinavia, Italy, France, and the United States. "My goal is to preserve decorative art and, through careful selection and juxtaposition, to showcase extraordinary and unique examples of various movements in architecture and design," Angela Weber explains in her rooms. Furniture is her medium. The Swiss native is worldly, speaks several languages fluently, and has an acute eye for proportions, material, and value that is difficult to deceive. Separating oneself from the environment and creating a protected inner space has occupied humans since time immemorial – here, living and furnishing succeed at the highest level, and the special also finds its place. In her gallery, she presents rare and special objects by designers such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul T. Frankl, Axel Einar Hjorth, Paolo Buffa, Osvaldo Borsani, Gio Ponti, and Birger Kaipiainen. Another focus is wonderful hand-woven textiles by artisans such as Vibeke Klint or Barbro Nilsson. And her own designs, such as a fantastic marble puzzle floor, but she is too modest to put it in the foreground.
The art historian, who studied at the Sorbonne and lived in Paris for a long time, manages to transform a red traditional jacket into a piece of personal couture. On the way to our photo shoot, she wears it with leopard print trousers, a white ruffled blouse, a hat, and a basket bag – much less loud and eclectic than it may sound, her look is a unique composition all its own. Unconventional, but not forced. Her pronounced keen sense for people who like to live beautifully and individually, her education, and her personal style have made her a furniture gallerist. And as in every good story, a bit of fate also helped things along for her.
Selecting, furnishing, clarifying questions of style and function – her greatest passion is furnishing itself, and sometimes it's hard for her to part with a special piece: "The trust of my customers is my greatest gift, and seeing how furniture, which is often truly unique, finds its space, always deeply touches me," says the mother of a daughter with the charming name Greta. As for the location of Zurich and the furniture taste of the Swiss, she is often surprised by how pragmatic people still are. If it were up to her, much more heavy linen, brocade, and silk would be used. Simply because it's beautiful and things don't always have to be just practical. Agreed!
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