This year’s Art Basel saw a number of luxury fashion houses eager to show off their new … chairs? Chairs
Meant to look like they are “traveling in time, caught in motion.” I was told by an assistant at the Dior Medallion Chair project that Ma Yansong’s 3-D-printed chairs were the “It” chairs of Art Basel and Design Miami this year. Photo: MA YANSONG ©KEN NGAN/Dior . Of course, high fashion’s fascination with furniture design isn’t exactly new. Rei Kawakubo started making chairs in the ’80s, while Fendi launched Fendi Casa, an actually usable home collection, in 1988.
But back to these chairs. Yes, the pandemic led to substantial growth in sales of home furnishings, but even without that, the fashion world’s infatuation with our Sitzfleisch makes sense; fancy furniture has the same aspirational bent as fancy shoes, and if a brand can’t be on your body, surely it would like to be in your home, even if it’s not something you can actually sit on.
That was the case for quite a few of the chairs that fashion houses debuted at this year’s Art Basel and Design Miami, where Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Fendi revealed their latest experiments in furniture . Below, some of our favorite fashion chairs from this year’s events. For its Medallion Chair project, Dior invited 17 artists to reinterpret its iconic Medallion Chair, an item that the house has typically used to seat guests at fashion shows. For his interpretation, Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka used layered acrylic for a chair that filters light like a chandelier.
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