Maadson’s furniture showroom at 231 10th Avenue sits in the heart of New York City’s West Chelsea art gallery district, surrounded by internationally renowned galleries and some of Manhattan’s most interesting neighborhood stories. Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Pace and Paula Cooper are all part of the surrounding gallery landscape. A visit here can bring together contemporary art, architecture, a walk on the High Line and a closer look at furniture for your own home.
We like to think of a Maadson visit as one stop in a day of looking. See how a gallery gives a sculpture space, notice the daylight in an exhibition room, then bring those observations into the way you think about a dining table, a chair or the lighting in your living room. Here is a guide to the places around us and the stories that make West Chelsea worth exploring.
Where to find Maadson in Chelsea
Our address is 231 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011. The galleries in this guide are on the nearby West Chelsea blocks, principally between West 19th and West 25th Streets. You can build a walking route around the exhibitions that interest you rather than trying to see every gallery in one afternoon.
Maadson is open daily. Many pieces are on display, but the showroom does not contain every item in our online catalog. Before making a special trip, call 212-206-1200 or contact our team to confirm the particular piece you would like to see.
The celebrated art galleries around our showroom
Hauser & Wirth — West 22nd Street
Hauser & Wirth at 542 West 22nd Street occupies a five-story building designed by Annabelle Selldorf. Its purpose-built galleries make architecture part of the experience: the proportions of the rooms and the use of natural light shape how you encounter the work. It is a useful stop for anyone interested in the relationship between art and the space around it.
Gagosian — West 24th Street
Gagosian’s gallery at 555 West 24th Street is another major name on the neighborhood walk. Its exhibition archive includes past presentations of artists such as Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein and Francesca Woodman. Follow the gallery’s current exhibition listings when planning your day.
David Zwirner — West 19th Street
David Zwirner’s West 19th Street galleries are at 519, 525 and 533 West 19th Street. The gallery moved from SoHo to Chelsea in 2002. Its new building at 533, designed by Selldorf Architects, opened in 2025. That combination of an established presence and new construction tells a larger neighborhood story: Chelsea continues to evolve as a place built around seeing art.
Pace — West 25th Street
Pace’s New York locations include 540, 508 and 510 West 25th Street. Its flagship at 540 opened in September 2019, with a program that included Alexander Calder, David Hockney and other artists. When you visit, pay attention to how different works change your sense of scale. A small object and a large installation can ask very different things of the room around them.
Paula Cooper Gallery — West 21st Street
Paula Cooper Gallery lists spaces at 534, 521 and 529 West 21st Street. Its exhibition archive reaches back to a 1968 benefit exhibition in SoHo, a reminder that the history of New York’s gallery scene extends across neighborhoods and generations. Include the West 21st Street spaces in your walk to explore another part of Chelsea’s gallery community.
Dia Chelsea — West 22nd Street
Dia Chelsea at 537 West 22nd Street offers a different kind of stop: a nonprofit institution with exhibitions and public programming. Admission is free, and its current visiting schedule is Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 6 p.m. Check the official page for holiday closures and any changes before setting out.
Gallery addresses and visiting information in this guide were checked in October 2026. Exhibition schedules change, and many commercial galleries close on Sundays and Mondays or between shows. Use each gallery’s own website to confirm the spaces that are open on your chosen date.
How warehouses became an art district
West Chelsea’s gallery identity grew out of a working neighborhood. New York City’s West Chelsea planning history describes the transition from manufacturing and warehouses to garages, nightclubs and then galleries attracted by open, well-lit loft spaces. Those industrial building types helped make room for a very different use.
The city’s 2005 rezoning brought another turning point, connecting plans for development with the reuse of the High Line and the neighborhood’s gallery district. Look for those layers as you walk through Chelsea today: a former loading entrance, an older warehouse facade and a contemporary gallery can belong to the same block.
The High Line: from freight trains to a public landscape
The High Line began as a working railway. It opened to trains in 1934, carrying freight above the streets to factories and warehouses. Its final train ran in 1980. Friends of the High Line formed in 1999 to advocate for preserving the structure and finding a new public use for it.
The first park section opened on June 9, 2009; the next, reaching from West 20th to West 30th Street, followed in 2011. The High Line’s own historical timeline records that transformation. What once served the movement of goods now offers a different way to move through the neighborhood.
A walk on the park gives you an elevated view of Chelsea’s changing architecture. Back at street level, the scale shifts again: gallery doors, storefronts, trees and the details of individual buildings come into focus. Check the High Line’s official website for current access information before your visit.
The artwork you might walk past on West 22nd Street
Some of the neighborhood’s art lives outside. Along West 22nd Street, trees paired with upright basalt stones form part of Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks). The project began in Kassel, Germany, in 1982, and the Chelsea installation began in 1988 under Dia’s auspices. Hauser & Wirth’s neighborhood history describes the work on this block.
Look for the pairings: a living tree beside a stone column. The Chelsea installation connects Beuys’s wider project to an everyday city street. You can encounter it while walking between galleries, sharing the sidewalk with people going about their day. It is a reason to slow down and notice the block itself.
Another layer of Chelsea: the old seminary buildings
A few blocks south on Tenth Avenue, The High Line Hotel at 180 Tenth Avenue occupies former student housing in the General Theological Seminary complex. Its operator’s building history dates that construction to 1895. Its red-brick Gothic architecture offers a different chapter from the warehouses and contemporary galleries nearby.
The hotel’s account of its interiors describes Roman & Williams’s use of historic pieces and custom details. For someone interested in furniture, that provides another way to think about a room: contemporary life can sit comfortably among older materials, forms and objects. The neighborhood rewards that kind of looking, from an entire building down to a single chair.
Extend your walk: Chelsea Market and the Whitney
Farther south, Chelsea Market occupies the former National Biscuit Company factory complex. Its food-market identity is another example of an industrial place taking on a new public life. It makes a natural food stop if you are continuing toward the Meatpacking District.
At 99 Gansevoort Street, the Whitney Museum of American Art is a museum destination beyond the immediate gallery blocks. Its Renzo Piano-designed downtown building opened on May 1, 2015, near the High Line’s southern entrance. Allow extra time for this optional extension, and check the museum’s admission arrangements and visiting schedule.
A gallery walk with a stop at Maadson
- Start at Maadson, 231 10th Avenue. If you have a furniture shortlist, confirm display availability before your visit and bring your room measurements.
- Explore West 22nd Street. Look for the Beuys tree-and-stone pairings, then visit Hauser & Wirth or Dia when open.
- Continue south for Paula Cooper and David Zwirner. Choose the exhibitions on West 21st and West 19th Streets that interest you.
- Loop north for Gagosian and Pace. Their West 24th and West 25th Street locations bring you back through the gallery district.
- Add the High Line, or head farther south. Leave extra time for Chelsea Market or a separately planned Whitney visit.
Leave the timing flexible: you may want to spend most of the afternoon in one exhibition. Check opening days first, and choose a few stops with time to enjoy them.
Bring the day’s inspiration home
A gallery visit can sharpen your eye for proportion, texture, color and the space between objects. You can use those same observations at home: give a sculptural chair breathing room, compare a light against the wall behind it, or choose a table that allows the whole dining area to work comfortably.
At Maadson, explore dining chairs, sofas and sectionals and our full collection before you visit. Our guides to dining-chair fit and NYC apartment furniture delivery can help turn that inspiration into a practical shortlist.
Make us part of your next Chelsea art day. Visit Maadson, 231 10th Avenue, New York, NY 10011, or email help@maadson.com with the pieces you would like to see.