Palais-Royal 2025

Salon 94 is pleased to announce an exhibition program in Paris’ historic Palais-Royal. Our residence at Gil Presti’s gallery Villa Atrata will run throughout the 2025-2026 season. A jewel box exhibition space, we will expand and combine programs of Salon 94 and Salon 94 Design, while fostering dialogue between New York and Paris’ contemporary art communities.

Our exhibition will feature the coveted tapestry of Kyoto-based artist, Mitsuko Asakura (b.1950) alongside new chairs by famed Mumbai-based designer and architect, Bijoy Jain (b.1965). Subsequent exhibitions in the Spring and Summer of 2026 will feature, among others, a solo show by Rome-based designer and sculptor F. Taylor Colantonio (b.1988)—whose daybed for Schiaparelli is on display at the house’s Place Vendôme headquarters.

Mitsuko Asakura is a contemporary Japanese textile artist renowned for her shimmering ombré silk tapestries that evoke rhythm and movement, and the Japanese landscape, moon and sky. Rooted in the kimono traditions of Kyoto, her work fuses meticulous craftsmanship with the material presence of color—indigo, among other natural and modern dyes—linking her contemporary practice to a centuries-old craft. We will feature her coveted Waltz series, started in the 1970’s— sweeping colorful horizontal forms of intricate weavings paused with dipping unbounded threads, she miraculously adds motion with intervals of rest, within a conventionally static medium.

Like Asakura, architect and designer Bijoy Jain transforms traditions with innovation. Jain works with elemental, raw materials—bamboo, stone, clay, indigo, urushi, and silk—that carry long histories and come directly from the natural environment. Organic materials abound as Jain presents a hand-carved and indigo-dyed wooden chair, a bamboo bench finished with urushi lacquer and bound with muga silk, and a trestle table composed of marble, lime, rice husk, marble dust, and lapis lazuli.

Together, Mitsuko Asakura’s refined weavings and Bijoy Jain’s meticulously-hand built furniture create a dialogue in which materials are vessels of atmosphere and mark time. Their works move fluidly between utility and contemplation, drawing the viewer into spaces where color and texture resonate like breath. Together, the exhibition highlights inherited techniques transformed into contemporary forms— opening onto new ways of sensing space, time, and presence.

The opening will be on Sunday, October 19, from 5 to 8 pm at gallery Villa Atrata, 30 galerie de Monpensier. The space is located in the Palais-Royal, one of Paris most prestigious cultural districts. The Palais-Royal is situated between La Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, the Louvre and the soon-to-reopen Fondation Cartier, located at the former Louvre des Antiquaires building.