For Borrowed , Paul Bert Serpette ventures beyond its walls. From its aisles emerge carefully selected pieces: the sculptural chairs of Bořek Šípek, the polished aluminum desk by Sven Eppendahl, the extremely rare bar set designed by Giuseppe Scapinelli. These objects leave the Paul Bert Serpette market to join, in the heart of Paris, a collective narrative, extending their primary purpose: to transmit, connect, and foster dialogue between eras. Of the 350 dealers located at Paul Bert Serpette, 6 are participating in this project.

THE WORDS OF UCHRONIA
These objects that connect us

This exhibition was born from a simple idea: asking those around us to share

Each piece presented here was loaned—not bought, commissioned, or acquired, but borrowed. A chair, a lamp, a table, an object, a fragment of someone's life. Everything comes from a friend, or a friend of a friend. From three people, from someone you know, or someone you don't yet know.

At a time when the world seems fractured, anxious, and increasingly individualistic, this project offers something deliberately gentle: a collective gesture, an act of trust, a temporary gathering.

The pieces presented in the exhibition are fragments of memories born from moments of sharing and exchange.

Each object transcends its mere materiality to become a symbol of connection and transmission. It embodies a living memory, shaped by collaboration and shared experience.

Thus, each piece reflects a collective, intimate, and shared history.

The exhibition takes place in an abandoned 1970s building on Rue de Richelieu, a site in transition that will soon become a hotel, but which for the moment seems suspended in time. Its ground floor becomes a shared interior space: neither house, nor institution, neither past, nor future. A gathering place.

Objects from different eras, disciplines, and sensibilities coexist without hierarchy. Design meets memory. Familiar forms mingle with unexpected ones. Nothing is permanent, nothing belongs to anyone, everything circulates.

Like a living room decorated by many hands, the space reflects a generation of creatives connected by invisible threads: friendships, collaborations, encounters, chance meetings. In this sense, the exhibition focuses less on fatherhood than on relationships.

The exhibition will bring together artists currently in residence at the Drawing Factory. Invited to take over the walls, they will leave their gestures and impulses there, like sensitive imprints. In this usually silent space, their trompe-l'oeil will give birth to a presence, transforming the void into an inhabited territory, vibrant with traces and passages.

There is no fixed route, nor any definitive conclusion. Visitors are invited to wander, explore, imagine, and expand the network themselves.

Because sharing is caring for others. And today, caring for others is a radical act.

🗓️ From March 5th to 9th, 2026
Opening reception on Thursday, March 5th from 6pm
⏰ 10am–6pm
💌 By reservation
📍Drawing Factory II - 61 rue de Richelieu - 75001 Paris

List of participants located at Paul Bert Serpette:

INITIO ARTS & DESIGN - https://wwwpaulbert-serpettecom/antiquaires/initio-arts-design
MAXIME HARDY GALLERY - https://wwwpaulbert-serpette.com/antiquaires/maxime-hardy
GALERIE PHARE -. paulbert-serpette.com/antiquaires/galerie-phare
A TASTE FOR ANTIQUITY - https://wwwpaulbert-serpette.com/antiquaires/le-gout-de-l-antiquite
REMIX GALLERY - https://wwwpaulbert-serpette.com/antiquaires/remix-gallery
ANGER ANTIQUITES - https://wwwpaulbert-serpette.com/antiquaires/anger-antiquites

Verbatim

"Participating in Borrowed was a natural choice for us. Leaving our usual space on Rue des Rosiers in Saint-Ouen means offering the artworks a different light, different perspectives, different resonances. We're staying on the Left Bank, at Le Bon Marché for a month; we're crossing the Seine to the Right Bank, for the duration of a story shared with uchronia and its inspiring guests."

This movement is not geographical, it is symbolic. Each piece that travels subtly changes its vibration. It encounters other sensibilities, other imaginations, and opens up in each person the possibility of welcoming the old into their own inner landscape. For antique furniture is not a fixed memory: it is a living presence, ready to dialogue with the present and contemporary artists.
Margaux Delprat