Martino Gamper: Endgrained

Renowned for creating objects that celebrate the joy and beauty of everyday things, Italian designer Martino Gamper reimagined Objectspace in Ta¯maki Makaurau Auckland as a social space for encounter and interaction in Endgrained. Across a new body of furniture focused on chairs and tables, visitors to the gallery were invited to use the space to dwell, meet or play.

Accompanying Endgrained was Wood from the trees, a collaborative research project by Gamper, Objectspace and designers James Goggin and Shan James of Practise, an ephemeral archive of timber histories in Aotearoa, drawn from a rich range of sources including journals, magazines, photographic collections and timber museums.

Captured in this publication and accompanied by an essay by Kim Paton and an interview between Martino Gamper and Nova Paul, Gamper’s projects for Objectspace express his enduring love of timber and honour the decades he has spent working with this material that is as old as time.

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This publication was produced following the Objectspace exhibition Martino Gamper: Endgrained, 27 March – 31 May 2026 at Objectspace, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland.

Editor: Victoria McAdam
Design: James Goggin & Shan James, Practise
Process and exhibition photography: Sam Hartnett
Typeface: Memphis Martino (James Goggin, adapted from Memphis, Rudolf Wolf, Schriftgießerei D. Stempel, 1929)
Printer: Touchprint | Inc. Productions

Martino Gamper: Endgrained was made possible with support from Objectspace Strategic Partner ECC and Exhibition Patrons Tony Kerridge and Micheal Do, with accompanying public programmes supported by the British Council New Zealand and the Pacific. This book has been produced with support from the Stout Trust, proudly managed by Perpetual Guardian, and from Lett Thomas.