When you see that Louis XVI style medallion chair with its oval backrest, you can’t help but think of Dior, who has chosen it since the foundation of the Maison, to accommodate its guests during the fashion shows and who then mentioned it. and recited on the bottles and caskets of his legendary perfumes, from Diorama to Diorissimo.
A true icon that today 17 great artists and designers have reinterpreted and which is on display in all these amazing variations, until Friday 10 September, in Milan, at Palazzo Citterio, in via Brera 12, where the headquarters will soon be from the modern art collection of the Pinacoteca di Brera.
They are true pieces of art that bear important signatures such as those of Sam Baron, Nacho Carbonell, Pierre Charpin, Dimorestudio, Khaled El Mays, Martino Gamper, Constance Guisset, India Mahdavi, Nendo, Joy de Rohan Chabot, Linde Freya Tangelder, Atang Tshikare, Seungjin Yang, Ma Yansong, Jinyeong Yeon, Tokujin Yoshioka e Pierre Yovanovitch.
Each has redesigned it in their own way. And so India Mahdavi, a French architect of Iranian origins, covered the chair with some of her famous crochet patterns, but did not want to deviate too much from the original shapes, while the Japanese collective Nnendo made it minimal and that inevitable oval it has become a hole in transparency. And he also played on transparency Tokujin Yoshioka, while Constance Guisset made it foldable and Ma Yansong he made a sculpture of it.
A tip: enter the exhibition “Dior Medallion Chair” and imagine how each of you would have reinterpreted it, which of these amazing versions your reinterpretation would have resembled. Monsieur Dior would not be offended: he was firmly convinced that history, yes, should be preserved, but never crystallized. 05
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