Gallery

Responding to the powerful pull of community, the Cristina Grajales gallery relocates in November 2021 to the heart of Tribeca. Its ground-level location, in a former 1925 garage building with exceptional hand-laid brickwork, is a connecting thread back to the industrial origins of its first home on Greene Street. Now in direct dialogue with the neighborhood and the street, the gallery welcomes new opportunities to animate design, cultivate fresh voices, and bridge the insights of the past with a visual language for the future.

In 2001, seeking a home for her new design advisory business, Cristina Grajales rented a floor in a former SoHo textile factory. The neighborhood was changing, but Grajales felt her Greene Street building embodied the authenticity and honest workmanship she revered in design and architecture. Here, single-commission treasures from European masters—Perriand, Prouvé, Royère and others, the artists she’d championed as director of New York’s seminal 1950 Gallery—were presented alongside the inventions of a new generation. Grajales became a founding participant in the Design Miami/Basel fair, sharing her enthusiasm for collectible design with a growing global audience.