Hasta La Ideas

Designer Philippe Malouin explains why he hung transparent bunting above the street in the next of our Seven Designers for Seven Dials movies about the aerial installations curated by Dezeen.

“You can see through the installation and through the neighbourhood all the way to the momument itself without obscuring or taking up too much visual space in the street,” says Malouin.

The 60 lines of transparent PVC bunting that were strung across the road caught the sunlight and rippled in the wind.

Dezeen commissioned seven young designers to create seven installations to hang above the streets of Covent Garden during last year’s London Design Festival, and Malouin’s bunting installation was located on Earlham Street.

We’ve already published three movies in this series with Faye Toogood, Dominic Wilcox and Gitta Gschwendtner speaking about their installations – see them all here.

The music featured in the movie is a song called Blue Sapphire by Remote Scenes. You can listen to the full track on Dezeen Music Project.

Photography is by Mark Cocksedge.

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