India Mahdavi Designs Striped Scenography for Furniture Exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris
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French architect India Mahdavi has found inspiration in the familiar colored stripes of seaside resorts to create the scenography for an exhibition titled “Nouvelles Vagues,” at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, reports dezeen.The exhibition, highlighting the 2India Mahdavi Designs Striped Scenography for Furniture Exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris
French architect India Mahdavi has found inspiration in the familiar colored stripes of seaside resorts to create the scenography for an exhibition titled “Nouvelles Vagues,” at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, reports dezeen.The exhibition, highlighting the 20th-century furniture, brings together more than 60 pieces from the Parisian institution’s collection. The show, curated by Centre Pompidou’s Marie-Ange Brayer, presents a nostalgic candy-striped backdrop, wherein “chairs unfold as sweets.” Through this unique theme, the exhibition explores how the shape of furniture evolved throughout the last century in response to lifestyle changes and the emergence of leisure culture.“This exhibition of furniture, lounge chairs, and inflatable pop reflects an evolution of manners and our relationship to the body,” said Brayer.The furniture on display includes early 20th-century chaise longues by the likes of Eileen Gray and Robert Mallet-Stevens, who reinterpreted the deck chair in new materials such as bent tubular steel and plywood. Contemporary versions of the chaise including a lightweight chair by Maarten Van Severen made from polyester and aluminum are also shown.Another section of the exhibition showcases the emergence of more casual, lounge-based living in the 1960s. Examples from this period include Olivier Mourgue’s Djinn seating collection (1964), Joe Colombo’s radical Tube chair (1969), and the original Sacco bean bag chair (1968).The exhibition’s upper level celebrates the exuberance and optimism that defined the era of Pop art and design. “The show’s setting in an iconic art deco building in the port city of Toulon informed Mahdavi’s design for the scenography, which borrows from the traditional seaside aesthetic of colored stripes and the forms of the furniture on show,” the dezeen reports.The dezeen report states that the furniture is arranged on podiums and surfaces covered with swirling patterns that distort the familiar stripes to create more free-form shapes. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more