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Par Caroline ROUX, in Galerie Magazine, 8 avril 2026
There really was no other contender for Best Stand. Romain Morandi’s scholarly approach to his profession is, as the French would say, sans pareil (or peerless). This year, he dazzled with the eight-legged “Haberfeld” table, a low, generous piece in oak and brass, made in 1902 for Adolf Loos’s client, the art historian Dr. Hugo Haberfeld, where every element has a structural value. (Loos’s mantra was “ornament is crime,” remember.) But it didn’t stop there. Other pieces included a 1902 cabinet by Koloman Moser, whose sister is in New York’s Neue Museum, next to which a 1984 wall hanging by Jasper Morrison, made while the designer was still at the Royal College of Art, was quite a surprise. It is called Rug with Many Bosoms for a reason.