Maria Loboda’s newest installation, an artfully arranged flower bed called “Smoking Room in a Private Palais in Brussels as Seen From the Entrance, 1905,” greets visitors as they exit the tents of the Frieze Art Fair on Randalls Island in New York. The outdoor exhibition is a tribute to two early 20th-century design phenomena: a smoking room in Vienna, designed by the secessionist production cooperative Wiener Werkstätte, and color-charted gardens, a bygone fad for mapping flowers by shade to create a plot that feels almost like a Pantone chart. Loboda potted groups of different plants in an arrangement that mimics the floor plan of the smoking room. “The idea is to take the domestic situation, an interior, and to translate it into something wild, into a landscape,” she said.
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