There is no algorithm for taste — only a long walk, a good eye, and the patience to leave most of it behind.
People ask how we choose. The honest answer is that we mostly choose what to leave. For every object that reaches the gallery, there are fifty I picked up, turned over, and set back down.
The test is simple and unfair: does it earn its place on form alone, before I know anything about it? If a thing only becomes interesting once you explain it, it isn't ready. The story should be the reward for looking, not the excuse for buying.
“If a thing only becomes interesting once you explain it, it isn't ready.”
Then come the questions that matter to us — who made it, where, and whether they were paid what the work is worth. A beautiful object with an ugly story behind it is not a good thing, and we don't sell it.
So the eye comes first and the conscience comes close behind. Both have to say yes. That is the whole filter, and it is why the collection stays small.
