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Olga Engel Rain curtain Biscuit-coloured ribbon slats H312 200 cm Olga Engel is a product and interior designer who harmoniously blends luxury and minimalism, functionality and ergonomics, with a light touch and a hint of irony. A graduate of the Moscow Textile Academy, she went on to obtain a degree in interior design from the ‘Details’ School in Moscow before continuing her studies at the KLC School of Design in London, where her time in designer Mark Humphrey’s studio proved pivotal to the development of her style. Winner of the 2018 Russian Prospective Design Award, she cultivates an elegant and playful minimalism, combining bisque porcelain, metal, mirror and textiles to create pieces characterised by curves, light and whiteness. She pays particular attention to textures, juxtaposing materials to evoke an ambiguous sensory and emotional resonance – the strength of wrought iron blended with the tenderness of porcelain. Her limited-edition works are represented by the Galerie Armel Soyer and the Galerie Gosserez in Paris, and feature in private collections across Europe and the United States. This piece lies at the heart of Olga Engel’s most characteristic approach: transforming porcelain into a living material, capable of movement and light. The bisque – unglazed porcelain fired just once – is here shaped into slivers and suspended ribbons, evoking the vertical fall of rain. It is a work that is both sculptural and architectural, playing on the transparency, rhythm and apparent lightness of a material that is, nevertheless, fragile. Through her extremely delicate handling of porcelain, the artist seeks to breathe new life into a material that has been unjustly neglected, yet which possesses an expressive charm that is at once fragile, tactile and delicate. The ‘Curtain of Rain’ takes this concept to its extreme: each slat is a drop frozen mid-fall, each ribbon a trail of light passing through the material. The piece interacts with the space that houses it, dividing without enclosing, filtering light without blocking it, transforming an interior into a poetic landscape
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About the sale Sculptural furniture and functional art
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Auction time 09/27/2026 at 2:30 PM
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