Radnor Marks Ten Years With a Brooklyn Tower Penthouse Gallery

After a decade of staging exhibitions inside Manhattan residences, Radnor is opening a gallery in Brooklyn, closer to where the story began. The studio has operated out of Gowanus’s American Can Factory for years, while a meaningful share of its roster—including Egg Collective, Workstead, and Pelle—built early careers in the borough’s workshops and lofts. The new penthouse at Brooklyn Tower arrives for Radnor’s 10th anniversary as both a homecoming and the latest expression of founder Susan Clark’s long-running interest in showing collectible design where it can be imagined in use.

That approach has been central to Radnor since its earliest exhibitions. In 2018, Material Interiors transformed a two-bedroom residence at David Chipperfield Architects’ The Bryant into a fully functioning installation, co-curated with Workstead and shaped by the apartment’s herringbone oak floors and honed-terrazzo borders. Three years later, Clark brought the format to 180 East 88th Street, an Upper East Side residence developed by DDG and Global Holdings, where she collaborated with Elizabeth Roberts Architects on an experiential showroom that paired Radnor’s roster with Roberts’s inaugural Radnor Made collection. Most recently, Radnor staged Evolution in Form within a 5,000-square-foot Sutton Tower penthouse, 70 floors above Manhattan, using Thomas Juul-Hansen’s architecture as a framework for a more pared-back presentation of collectible design.

Brooklyn Tower, the SHoP Architects supertall that now defines Downtown Brooklyn’s skyline, continues that lineage on a nearly 6,000-square-foot, full-floor penthouse. With 12-foot ceilings and sweeping views across Manhattan and Brooklyn, the setting is conceived as both gallery and residence, allowing objects to be encountered not as isolated works on display but as elements within a lived environment.

That commitment to material presence carries into the inaugural program: a solo presentation of new handwoven works by Los Angeles-based artist Rachel DuVall. Her practice begins with the inherent grid of weaving—the perpendicular meeting of warp and weft—then pushes against its rigidity through the small irregularities of the hand. For this series, DuVall places a painted layer beneath the woven surface, allowing naturally dyed fibers in mossy green, indigo, and ochre to register against a colored ground rather than blank canvas.

Radnor has long championed textile-based work, and DuVall’s stretched, framed pieces read as tactile paintings. Distributed throughout the penthouse’s generous proportions, the textiles establish a quiet counterweight to the building’s verticality, light, and expansive views. The installation also underscores how Clark’s model has evolved over the past decade: each setting gives designers a particular architectural condition to respond to, while giving visitors a more intimate sense of how singular objects might shape the atmosphere of a home.

For Clark, the milestone is as much about place as it is about program. Uniting the roles of retailer, gallery, and manufacturer, Radnor has spent the past 10 years building an international roster that ranges from Toshio Tokunaga and Loïc Bard to homegrown Brooklyn talent—supporting designers who create singular, thoughtfully produced objects.

To learn more about Susan Clark and her creative endeavors, visit radnor.co.

Photography by William Jess Laird.

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