Unbound: A Salvino Marsura retrospective

This London Design Festival, Béton Brut presents ‘Unbound’, the first major retrospective of iron-artist Salvino Marsura (1938-2020).

‘Unbound’ explores ideas of nature uninhibited and the human impulse to restrain it. Organic metal forms — roots, tendrils, stalactites — vie against shackles and chainlink in this curated Marsuran underworld.

Spanning six decades of Marsura’s furniture, lighting and sculpture, the show brings unseen works from his Treviso forge into Béton Brut’s interior landscape, celebrating the gallery’s 10th anniversary in Hackney Wick.

All that is wild and unruly, wrangled and hammered, is set against a deliberately spare curation of vintage from the Béton Brut collection. Rationalist club seating by early minimalist Jean Michel Frank exercises restraint and gives Marsura’s works room for contemplation. This complementary display reveals how his works were not only conceived as expressive forms, but as functional pieces to be lived with and used.

13 – 21 September 2025

Béton Brut, Unit 2, 30 Felstead St, London E9 5LG

11.00 – 19.00 everyday

(11.00 – 20.00 Tuesday 16)

Host or Publisher Béton Brut