This magnificent decanter by Frank Gehry is both a monumental sculpture and a crystal masterpiece. How it was made

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Versace Home 2022 Collection offers a global experience of the Versace world

 

Versace Home furniture comes alive on the domestic stage and presents embracing designs.

Versace Home 2022 Collection; @Luxury Living Group

The beauty of the new 2022 Versace Home collection is expressed in all its sculptural power in the new store space on Via Durini, Milan, which is staged like a real home. There the Versace world is revealed, room by room, in a succession of atmospheres that speak of its extraordinary ability to draw on different artistic expressions and transform them into a liveable reality.

Versace Home’s new 2022 collection of furniture and home accessories was created as part of a collaboration between Donatella Versace and the famous duo of design architects: Roberto Palomba and Ludovica Serafini. More than a simple transposition of the luxury fashion brand’s stylistic codes, this design project has been created by master architects in partnership with Luxury Living Group integrating fashion, luxury and living to offer a global experience of the Versace world.

Versace Home 2022 Collection; @Luxury Living Group
Versace Home 2022 Collection; @Luxury Living Group

The new Versace Home collection is the fruit of research into the brand’s history, its shows, its icons, and graphic elements that distinguish its philosophy, and most importantly of the incredible experience of the two architects when it comes to create interior design pieces that last.

Leather is combined with silk, luxury metals with marble, and block colors with printed surfaces as a celebration of contrasts. The Versace Home designs are defined by this polyphonic vision: each piece, with its own history and character, forms part of a complete and evocative environment in which we can immerse ourselves for a new living experience.

The brand’s new La Greca pattern evolves from the runway to the home and forms a jacquard that dresses furnishings. The pattern also provides a backdrop for some of the rooms in the Milan store. La Greca represents a modern interpretation of Versace’s iconic Greek Key.

Versace’s signature Medusa, Barocco and Trésor de la Mer motifs give three-dimensionality to the details of sofas and chairs, coffee tables, beds and lampshades, mirrors and cabinets. Tone-on-tone engravings, screen printing, textile treatments and pleating give elegant vibrations to the surfaces, combined with glossy finishes. Furniture such as the generous Aeternitas love bed, styles from the Goddess line, and those of the Stiletto collection are the stars of a rebellious, sophisticated and avant-garde habitat – all boasting expert craftsmanship.

Versace Home 2022 Collection; @Luxury Living Group
Versace Home 2022 Collection; @Luxury Living Group
Versace Home 2022 Collection; @Luxury Living Group
Versace Home 2022 Collection;
Versace Home 2022 Collection – Signature Shine; @Luxury Living Group

Reimaginings: Dior’s Medallion Chairs debut in the US

Dior Presents the Dior Medallion Chair Exhibition at Superblue Miami.

Ma Yansong’s reinterpretation of Dior Medallion Chair ©Ken Ngan

Dior Maison invited seventeen artists to reinterpret one of its iconic emblems: the Medallion Chair. A symbol of Louis XVI style that fashion designer Christian Dior chose as soon as he founded his luxury fashion House, in order to seat guests at his fashion shows in a “sober, simple and above all classic and Parisian” décor, as he recounted in his memoirs. The essential oval surmounted by a fontanges bow became one of the major codes of 30 Avenue Montaigne, the beating heart of Dior. Today, Sam Baron, Nacho Carbonell, Pierre Charpin, Dimorestudio, Khaled El Mays, Martino Gamper, Constance Guisset, India Mahdavi, nendo, Joy de Rohan Chabot, Linde Freya Tangelder, Atang Tshikare, Seungjin Yang, Ma Yansong, Jinyeong Yeon, Tokujin Yoshioka and Pierre Yovanovitch offer their visions and artistic and cultural sensibilities to reconceive this object of desire with boundless creativity.

On the occasion of Design Miami and Art Basel, legendary fashion house Dior makes a splash with the US debut of its Medallion Chair Exhibition, featuring reinterpretations of the chair.

The exhibition takes place in Superblue, Miami’s lauded new experiential art venue—which is, notably, the same space in which Dior presented its Pre-Fall 2020 men’s collection, prior to Superblue’s opening. The US debut is the follow-up to the exhibition’s launch during Milan Design Week earlier this year, which was staged in a mist-filled interior room and garden of the 18th century Palazzo Citterio in Brera.

The designers’ reimaginings are wonderfully eclectic: Ma Yansong designed his windswept-looking chairs to appear as though they are “traveling through time;” Sam Baron, meanwhile, reinterpreted the chair as an outdoor swing, a rocking chair, and a bench, resulting in “piece[s] that celebrate gathering and conviviality.”

India Mahdavi’s pattern-rich designs were envisioned as a family or tribe of sorts, and produced using Indian textile techniques from Kashmir, while Atang Tskhikare’s chair was handmade in collaboration with Xhosa craftswomen and features intricate beadwork.

Linde Freya Tangelder of Destroyers/Builders found inspiration in the original chair’s soft curves, which “remind me of sanded glass, shaped by the sea;” her elegant, aluminum “Sage” chair—which is first CNC-milled, then assembled and welded before being hand-brushed by the designer—intends to“explore silver in all its subtleties.” And Seungjin Yan’s delightful “Blowing Series” chairs were molded over balloons using epoxy resin.

Khaled El Mays’ reinterpretation of the Medallion Chair. Photo ©Tanya Traboulsi | Nendo’s reinterpretation of the Medallion Chair. Photo © Yuto Kudo
Joy de Rohan Chabot’s handcrafted reinterpretation of the Medallion Chair. Photos © Marion Berrin
Sam Baron’s reinterpretation of the Medallion Chair. Photo © Marion Berrin
Sam Baron’s reinterpretation of the Medallion Chair. Photo © Marion Berrin
Seungjin Yang. Image courtesy: Sungmin Kim
Pierre Yovanovitch reinterpretation of Dior Medallion Chair 2021. Image courtesy: Marion Berrin