MILAN — Dutch-New Zealander designer Sabine Marcelis’ profile continues to rise as she unleashes her futuristic, spatial design spirit into the world of house and forges initiatives with trend manufacturers like Dior and Fendi.
On Sunday, the Italian hospitality trade skilled her distinctive design sense. Till Sept. 21, her new set up entitled “Jelly Floats” shall be on view within the pool of the Lake Como Version lodge, operating concurrently with the continued Lake Como Design Competition.
Her newest undertaking is stuffed with whimsy and consists of a curated assortment of sculptural, translucent donut-shaped floaties. Identified for her exploration of this iconic form throughout rugs, lamps and bowls, Jelly Floats marks her first foray into inflatable, translucent kinds — bringing her design language into a wholly new medium.
Marcelis informed WWD that the jellies are made from PVC (polyvinyl chloride) in sizzling pink. “It’s fairly a distinction to the pure vista surrounding the pool. I really like how this undertaking is simply all about offering a little bit of enjoyable to the guests having fun with the pool. Design doesn’t all the time must be so critical,” she stated, emphasizing the relevance of smaller occasions like The Lake Como Design Competition and the occasions, like her personal, that encompass it.
“It’s the primary time for me visiting the pageant and I’m very a lot wanting ahead to seeing what else shall be on present. I really like satellite tv for pc and smaller design weeks. I lately visited design weeks in Vietnam, Bali and Mallorca the place smaller occasions have been held. I believe these occasions will be very stunning and simpler to handle than the bigger ones,” she stated.
Sabine Marcelis’ Jelly Floats The Lake Como Version
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Earlier this month, Marcelis work was featured on the Miss Dior exhibition in Shanghai on the Fosun Basis. Marcelis showcased alongside six Chinese language artists, together with Ai Jing, Chen Ke, Liang Yuanwei, Liu Shiyuan, Zhou Li and Daishi Luo, in addition to Japanese artist Haruka Kojin, French artist Ingrid Donat and American artist Judy Chicago. The artistic spoke on the February version of Paris’ Matter and Form throughout its Jil Sander Design Talks. Marcelis, together with Cloud, the multidisciplinary apply based by Paul Cournet, was commissioned by Design Area Alula to design the scenography for its exhibition at Milan Design Week 2024.
San Pietro in Atrio exhibition area is internet hosting an exhibit devoted to Aldo Rossi at some point of Lake Como Design Competition.
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The seventh version of the Lake Como Design Competition can even run till Sept. 21. Key exhibitions embody a tribute to Italian architect and designer Aldo Rossi. Entitled “Structure by Fragments” the showcases was curated by Chiara Spangaro in collaboration with the Fondazione Aldo Rossi and shall be hosted in San Pietro in Atrio exhibition area, which was previously a church. Elsewhere, Rossi’s up to date, Ico Parisi can also be the main focus of the primary inaugurating the brand new headquarters of the Archivio Design Ico Parisi: a showcase of large-format work from the sequence “Crolli edificanti – Tavole di provocazione” (Italian for “Edifying Collapses — Provocative Tables”), with works by no means earlier than exhibited in Como and created in the course of the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties.
