Maquette will utilize its space across the first and second floors for open storage and private rooms that allow clients to design storage strategies around their needs.
“As the vaccine brings promise of the re-opening of more galleries and institutions, we anticipate further demand for our expert services in the management, storage and transportation of fine art and are delighted to open our expanded, climate-controlled space at The Matsil Building.” “We have also been very busy transporting work for owners who have chosen to relocate during the pandemic and launched a regular shuttle service to the Hamptons specifically for collectors and galleries. “The COVID pandemic has undoubtedly impacted the art world in a major way, but collectors are still buying,” added Smith. “We are very excited to have the opportunity to bring some of the best services in the industry to both the New York and New England areas,” said Jason Smith, co-founder of Maquette, noting the firm has seen continued demand for its services, despite the pandemic, hosting viewings and photo sessions within its facilities while arranging management, crating and transportation of art assets. Maquette has expanded to meet increasing demand for the storage, packing, transportation and installation of fine art.Īs well as expanding its NYC operation, Maquette has opened a new storage and operating facility in Malden, Mass., which will service the New England market.
The company has relocated its NYC operations this past year into the Matsil Building headquarters space, and expanded to meet increasing demand for the storage, packing, transportation and installation of fine art.Īccording to art market analytics firm ArtTactic, the pandemic has driven a global surge in online art dealing that drove sales at the three major auction houses – Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips – to $596.7 million between January to August 2020, from $168.2 million for the whole of 2019.Ī mass migration of the urban wealthy to second homes in rural and beachfront enclaves, such as The Hamptons and Nantucket, also boosted business in the transportation of their art. Maquette signed a long-term lease for an additional 56,200 s/f on the first floor of the three-story industrial property located at 48-49 35th Street.Ĭhris Pachios and Forrest Mas of NRC, which owns the 282,350 s/f property in a joint venture with North Colony Asset Management (NCAM), negotiated the lease directly with Maquette. Maquette signed a 10-year lease for 47,850 square feet on the entire third floor of North River Company’s (NRC) The Matsil Building at 48-49 35th Street between Hunters Point and 48th Avenues, The.
I wanted to move to a place in art that was unstable and terrifying.North River Company (NRC) announced that art logistics company, Maquette Fine Art Services, has expanded its space at The Matsil Building in Long Island City to 150,910 s/f, bringing the building to 100 percent occupancy. Fine arts logistical company Maquette inked a deal to expand its New York City headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, the landlord confirmed. “I realized some painters, after their retrospectives, go on to paint masterpieces, a little worse than before, or a little better, it doesn’t matter. The earliest piece in the exhibition, is a small painting with ink over-drawing - a picture of Katz’s mother - that dates from 1946. A maquette, also known as a bozzetto or modello, is a three dimensional object made as a preparatory study for a full-sized. This fall, a second retrospective curated by Katherine Brinson, “Alex Katz: Gathering,” spanning the totality of his astonishingly long and robust career– will open at the Guggenheim. “I don’t think hardly any painter ever gets that opportunity.”ģ6 years after his major retrospective, Katz continues to climb up a ladder to paint in his 90’s with the night paintings his tender portraits of flowers and his sequential works, in which the image of a person recurs. “I’ve been painting for 77 years,” Katz says.
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