Bottega Veneta presents custom-made Le Corbusier stools at Milan Fashion Week
Posted in: Uncategorized
The set design for the Bottega Veneta Autumn Winter 2024 womenswear show at Milan Fashion Week featured a special edition of Le Corbusier‘s LC14 Cabanon stool in burnt wood.
For the show in Milan, which was informed by the south of Italy, the fashion brand created an edition of 350 wooden stools.
These were burnt by hand, following a traditional Japanese scorching technique that was also used for the floor of the catwalk the models walked down.
Placed around the scorched-wood show space were giant flowering cacti sculptures made from Murano glass.
Bottega Veneta creative director Matthieu Blazy said he wanted the set to convey “resilience and a feeling of hope”.
“The floor is fired, the box stool is fired, the Murano glass cactus is fired,” he added. “The cactus grows where nothing else can grow.”
The LC14 Cabanon stools by Le Corbusier were produced with Italian manufacturer Cassina and in close collaboration with Fondation Le Corbusier.
The scorched-wood finish added by Bottega Veneta was said to give “natural protection to the wood while revealing the distinct patterns of the grain, making each stool in the series unique”.
Originally, the stool was a whiskey box that Le Corbusier found and “repurposed a pragmatic thing that became a legend,” Blazy said.
“The elegance is in the simplicity, honesty, and resilience,” Blazy added.
Bottega Veneta has previously worked with big other design names to design the flooring and seating at their shows.
Italian architect Gaetano Pesce – recently announced as Dezeen Awards 2024 judge – created a resin set and chairs for the brand’s Spring Summer 2023 show.
The 400 bespoke Pesce chairs from the show were then exhibited and sold at Design Miami.
In a similar fashion, the Le Corbusier stools are destined for sale at the Salone del Mobile furniture fair where they will form part of an installation during Milan Design Week this April.
Other Bottega Veneta projects recently featured on Dezeen include Gaetano Pesce’s first handbag design for the brand and the interior design of the latest retail space in the historic Milan Galleria.
Imagery is courtesy of Bottega Veneta.
The post Bottega Veneta presents custom-made Le Corbusier stools at Milan Fashion Week appeared first on Dezeen.
Post a Comment