Sunday, 26 February 2006 | Levent OZLER
Fiordifoto : Artificial Vegetation Photoflowers
Milan's Salone del Mobile 2006 furniture fair will see fiordifoto presented: the new product designed by Alessandro Loschiavo and Makoto Kawamoto.
It is an artificial "fluctuating" flower, sensitive to the surrounding movements that lend the setting in which it is placed an air of light irony and impertinent instability. It is provided in the two-fold floorltable version and, thanks to a small magnet, assumes the function of photo holder or support for paper messages and postcards that can be freely added along the stem's length. Even the most sacred images and important portraits come to be completely de-dramatised once affixed to the fiordifoto.
It is made up of a solid transparent acrylic base and a harmonic steel wire stem that ensures the instability feature typical of natural flowers blowing in the breeze. It is also conceived as a support for small graphics that various companies and societies could use in settings for promotional events.
fiordifoto will be on display in the rooms of alistair's restaurant in Milan, in fascinating surroundings realised with the collaboration of Patrizia Minuta. The restaurant's diners will be encircled by an anomalous vegetation of tall, very thin stems and strange animated leaves achieved via the elaboration of photographs by Rafael Bustillos (Mexico). The ambience will be completed with synthetic flowers by Franca Forzati and modular lianas by Gumdesign and produced by PLASTILINE.
http://www.aliantedizioni.it
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