It’s one thing to meet Jun Villalon, director and founder of The Drawing Room, as a gallerist, and another to meet him as a collector. Ask him about the gallery and he speaks with the measured focus of someone who has spent more than two decades around artists and their work. Ask him about what he collects, and the energy changes. There is a spark, a quickening, as he moves from one interest to the next. At the back of the Drawing Room is a glimpse of that other side of Jun. Typewriters sit on top of boxes. Vintage bicycles are parked beside a desk. There is mid-century furniture, art, and the evidence of a collector whose interests span multiple categories. It was Kathleen, Jun’s wife and partner at the gallery, who told us about his bicycles. When we asked to see them, Jun even got on one and pedalled..
