Sebastian + Barquet, a three-year old design gallery based in New York and Chelsea, is opening a new gallery showing museum quality pieces in Mayfair next month, the first in London to focus on international modernism from the 1940s to the 1960s. Its opening exhibition is dedicated to American modernist design and is curated by celebrated architect Eric Parry.

After a succesful exhibition at Design Basel in June, Sebastian + Barquet's inaugural exhibition entitled "New Hope" - in reference to an area of Pennsylvania where many of the American Modernist designers lived and worked - will feature seminal works by George Nakashima, one of the leaders of the 20th century American Craft movement.