Award-winning architect Amos Goldreich was visiting his father’s studio when he stumbled across a large tin container. Carefully rolled up inside was a portion of what has become an extensive archive, charting the work of his parents, modernist architects and polymaths Arthur Goldreich and Tamar de Shalit – the starting point for new furniture brand Tamart.
‘My mum passed away in 2009 and my father 18 months later, and cataloguing their work became part of the grieving process,’ says Goldreich. It wasn’t until during the lockdowns in 2021, though, that a dream, had during an afternoon siesta, prompted him to take their designs off the page and into production. ‘I saw myself in Milan, on stage with the ‘Clore’ chair and ‘Central’ stool,’ he recalls. ‘I woke up and that was it, I knew I had to do it, although I took a few more years building my courage.’
Tamart’s inaugural collection will be on show for the first time at Design Variations in Milan. The ‘Clore’ chair will be there, alongside a ‘Clore’ coffee table (both pictured top) and ottoman (all designed in the 1960s for the penthouse of the late philanthropist Sir Charles Clore), as will the ‘Central’ stool, ‘Red Rock’ chair, stool and console (created for a 60s nightclub of the same name) and two ‘Highgate’ chairs.
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Look out for a special version of the ‘Clore’ chair, created especially for Milan, that will be upholstered in a fabric designed to represent the scarves de Shalit used to weave for her husband. ‘He wore them well,’ recalls Goldreich, and so will the chair. ‘Giving my parents’ work a new life brings me immense joy,’ he adds. ‘I know they would have embraced it wholeheartedly.’ tamartdesign.com
