‘Colorful Wind’ Window Installation By Emmanuelle Moureaux (JP)

‘Colorful Wind’ window installation by Emmanuelle Moureaux, photo: Daisuke Shima /Nacasa & Partners

Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Style have designed an installation for Japanese casual put on designer, manufacturer and retailer Uniqlo for the launch of their 2014 spring line ‘Linen’.

‘Colorful Wind’ window installation by Emmanuelle Moureaux, photo: Daisuke Shima /Nacasa & Partners

“Linen’s breathable and cool feelings, its soft and supple texture, have been expressed in the installation as the colorful and refreshing spring breeze.” says Emmanuelle Moureaux.

‘Colorful Wind’ window installation by Emmanuelle Moureaux, photo: Daisuke Shima /Nacasa & Partners

Titled ‘Colorful Wind’, paper strands in 100 shades of colour float and sway above a group of mannequins, giving the feel of standing in a spring breeze. “The gentle swaying motion of the floating volume of colors is expressing the starting of new season on the colorful wind.”

‘Colorful Wind’ window installation by Emmanuelle Moureaux, photo: Daisuke Shima /Nacasa & Partners

51 Uniqlo stores will feature a ‘Colorful Wind’, starting with the Ginza flagship store in Tokyo and then to other flagship retailers, like Fifth Avenue NY and 311 Oxford Street London, for a simultaneous 26 worldwide cities art installation in 8 nations.

‘Colorful Wind’ window installation by Emmanuelle Moureaux, photo: Daisuke Shima /Nacasa & Partners

The main glass case utilizes roughly 2,400 strands of 4.7m extended colored paper in 100 shades. Mannequins are placed beneath the floating volume of colored strands. With fans placed on the floor, the paper strands lightly lift up into the air and gently sway above the mannequins. A mirrored ceiling supplies an “overflowing effect” of colors from the glass case into the retailer. For the facade, 100 shades of square paper fill up a 7m high board, where colors look to float up into the air.

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Bathroom Sinks Installation By Thukral & Tagra

Posted on March 07th, 2014 in Bathroom Design

The bathroom as a living atmosphere, rich in inspiration: a location which is not only restricted to its functionality but which becomes an integral part of the property with no the want for a continuity resolution. The philosophy of Ceramica Globo focuses on the creation of design merchandise that can satisfy the diverse tastes of the public while remaining constant with its personal history and its personal concept.

On the occasion of the Fuorisalone 2014, the brand presents an innovative and stage-like installation which is ironic and visionary within its own showroom on corso Monforte. Globo communicates its globe by means of Animus, a conceptual and image-based operation which underscores the merchandise and the space in a manner which is out of the ordinary.

The installation was entrusted to the Thukral & Tagra duo, inventive Indians and dynamic artists whose operate ranges from art to design and style to graphics. It is a collaboration which seeks radically to transform the show approaches connected to the bathroom and the merchandise which comprise it.  Pop and organic inspirations, visual links to the India of the third millennium which presents itself to the planet as a complicated and fascinating, dreamlike reality which is colored by vintage touches.
“Animus is the title of a work we conceived for the duration of a trip from Delhi to Milan in 2006. It was our first trip to Italy, on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile, to participate in an exhibit”.
Animus is, as a result, a reminiscence, an almost nostalgic dream.
The function of the two artists sums up the space, nearly a playful homage to the Flemish artists of the 16th century. Finely created ornaments transform sinks into radios with a retro really feel, even though the atmosphere is invaded by intriguing puppets which discretely accompany the visitor: objects which combine the idea of mythological figures with those of videogame characters, creating an ideal bridge among past and present. The installation is completed by enameled tubes — a clear reference to plumbing — which connect the fixtures with every single other as if they have been frozen water jets, a sensation which is amplified by the striking sound of water diffused through speakers in the showroom.

For Thukral & Tagra, the continuous references to ancient and modern day are born from the fusion of craftsman activities and the technological element with the explicit want to discover the nevertheless human essence of industrialization, encouraging an optimistic vision which dreams of the future but remains strongly anchored to the previous. This is indeed one particular of the powerful points of Globo, a brand which has been in a position to merge the mastery of standard manufacturing of ceramics with the most innovative industrical processes, guaranteeing good quality on the a single hand and ensuring continuous investigation paying specific to sustainability and the environment.

The Fuorisalone is the showcase for the organization to present an revolutionary strategy to the bathroom theme: a way to interpret this area of the residence as a space to be lived in which is identified with the tastes of the consumer.  Absolutely everyone can find his personal reference taste in the catalogue: type the collections focused on design and style to the classical ones, from the linear ones which find their strength in simplicity to eclectic, wealthy ones. Globo continues its research operate on aesthetic and functional references of the bathroom area, consistently rising its solution offering and focusing on shapes.

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