Patrick Perrin and Stéphane Custot are pleased to announce the final selection of participants for the fifth edition of the Pavilion of Art & Design London. Bringing together an incredible set of 57 galleries from 11 countries to its prime location on Berkeley Square, PAD London 2011 promises to be the strongest edition of the fair since its inception in 2007.

A rigorous selection process introduces to London the best dealers from Europe and North America within the fields of Modern Art, Design, Decorative Arts, Photography and Tribal Art from 1860 to today. Opening a new London space in October, Luxembourg & Dayan (USA) make their first appearance with modern artworks by Alexander Calder, Steven Parrino and Anselm Kiefer. Owned by former Sotheby’s directors and known for their stable of incredible modern and contemporary artists,  Mitchell-Innes & Nash  (USA) offerartworks by Alberto Burri and Kenneth Noland. Making their debut to the fair is Eykyn Maclean (USA), the New York-based private dealers also opening a new London space in 2012, specialising in museum-quality artworks ranging from Impressionism to Post-War. Concentrating on Italian modern masters,  Galleria Tega (Italy) presents fantastic works such as a golden punctured canvas by Lucio Fontana.

 Rounding out the Modern British faction  and joining  Robin Katz Fine Art (UK) and  Osborne Samuel (UK)  is  Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert  (UK), who emphasises on internationally renowned 20thC. artists from the genre. Galerie Pascal Lansberg (France) features an incredible selection of modern and contemporary art, with particular focus in Pop Art, Abstraction and Nouveau Realism. Also displaying modern art is Natalie Seroussi (France),  showing works by Max Ernst, Jean Dubuffet and Victor Vasarely alongside 20thC. design from Galerie du Passage (France) at their shared stand at PAD London.Superb examples of Scandinavian furniture, including chairs and tables by Finn Juhl and Poul Kjaerholm, are exhibited at Dansk Møbelkunst (Denmark), while Swedish gallery Modernity (Sweden) shows a rare decorated chest by architect Josef Frank and sterling silver candelabra by Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala. One of Jean Prouvé’s first  masterpieces, the Fauteuil “cité”, created as  part of a competition to design chairs for the university in Nancy, features at Jousse Entreprise (France), while Yves Macaux (Belgium), an international expert in the Viennese Secession, presents a brass chandelier by Adolf Loos and dining chairs by Joseph Urban. British antiques dealers  Blairman & Sons (UK)  display fine 19thC. furniture and decorative objects from the Arts & Crafts movement by artists such as Dr Christopher Dresser and EW Godwin.

Dominating a significant portion of the fair are stands dedicated  to the most cutting-edge of contemporary design, with many galleries commissioning new works specifically for the occasion. Priveekollektie (The Netherlands) shows pieces from emerging and established designers, including Arik Levy, Rolf Sachs and Reinier Bosch. David Gill Galleries (UK) returns to PAD London after a two-year hiatus with works by design greats such as Fredrikson Stallard and Mattia Bonetti, staging their contemporary furniture alongside a 1966 cabinet by Ettore Sottsass.  Nilufar Gallery (Italy) bridges the gap between 20thC. and contemporary design with neon lighting by Michael Anastassiades, bookcases by Martino Gamper and curved tables designed by British artist Bethan Laura Wood.Once again Moët Hennessy sponsors the donation of a significant piece of Design or Decorative Arts to the Victoria & Albert Museum as part of the Moët Hennessy-PAD London Prize.

The prestigious judging panel, chaired by architect and designer Nigel Coates, is comprised of prominent figures in the fields of art, fashion, culture, communication and business, such as Allegra Hicks, Jasper Conran, Tom Dixon, Bella Freud and Karla Otto. Previous years have seen the V&A acquire exquisite pieces from  Friedman Benda (USA) and Carpenters Workshop Gallery (UK).www.padlondon.netA Child’s Chair Project II is the second initiative at PAD London to raise vital funds for the NSPCC’s Rebuilding Childhoods Appeal. Francis Sultana, in collaboration with the Rebuilding Childhoods Volunteer Board, including Bodil Blain and Sojin Lee, have commissioned leading artists and designers to customise the child’s size Vitra edition of the Verner Pantone chair to be offered for sale at the fair this October, with 100% of the proceeds going to benefit the NSPCC. Artists and designers participating in this initiative include Fredrikson Stallard, Oriel Harwood, Zaha Hadid, Barnaby Barford, Alexander Taylor and Mattia Bonetti, amongst others. The participating artists and designers all have very individual styles, which range from minimalist to baroque, creating unique pieces which retain the spirit of the creator, yet simultaneously capture the child’s imagination.In November of this year, PAD New York will launch at the Park Avenue Armory to coincide with New York’s fall Impressionist and Contemporary auctions. With four successful years of the London fair and the revered reputation of its Parisian counterpart, Pavillon des Arts et du Design Paris, now it its fifteenth year, PAD New York will build on this distinguished heritage to present a third collection of Modern Art, Design, Decorative Arts, Photography, Jewellery and Tribal Art. The fair organisers also plan on opening a Milan edition of the fair in 2012 to overlap with the Salone Internazionale del Mobile.

BERKELEY SQUARE, W1

Wednesday 12 October – Sunday 16 October 2011

Press View: Tuesday 11 October, 11AM – 1PM