FASHION:ARCHITECTURE:TASTE

FAT abreviated form of Fashion:Taste:Architecture, is an architecture studio founded in 90s in London. Its portfolio of works ranges in the fields of art, interior design, curation, urban design and architecture.

The unusual works by FAT, are influenced by everyday objects/shapes/aestheticsm that lies beneath pop-culture. Their colorful works carry out easily recongizable shapes as main elements in a playful way. The manipulation of scale, bold colors and cutout features all create a cartoonlike feeling, a dollhouse effect for adults/the serious people. Simple and fun in a sophisticated way, FAT’s spatial, architectural interventions succeed putting an interesting smile on everyday person’s face.

In conclusion through its body of works, FAT puts together a controversial collage of playfulness, colors, boldness, simplicity, surreality and artful references. The studio’s confident designs that speak strongly for themselves are a contemporary interpretation of the traditional.
Images via fashionarchitecturetaste.com

PRADA'S 24H MUSEUM

24/25th of january, during Paris haute couture week, Paris’s historic Palais D'iéna housed Prada’s “24h museum”. The historic space that transformed to a “nonexistent” museum, a baroque festival for 24 hours launched on the eve of 24th with a private party.

The pop-up museum supported by Prada, designed by Francesco Vezzoli with AMO (Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas’s creative thinking studio) was an haute couture experience that merged gallery space, discotheque, art, fashion and icons/celebs.

AMO’s spatial interventions that included a grand staircase, giant columns and a caged hall with pink neon tubes were pieces of this contemporary collage that fused various exhibition spaces and various times.

Artworks by Vezzoli were the artist’s interpretations of classical sculptures making reference to contemporary divas. Colorless bodies of 18^th century sculptures complimented with faces of ‘Elizabeth Taylor’s were designed to illuminate elucidating the eternal power of feminity. As Vezzoli refers to them, his 13 “disco sculptures” were placed on white marble plinths in the steel caged hall.

According to Vezzoli, 24h museum was a parody of a baroque feast, and the special artworks will remain as ruins of a lost moment. The meaning of museum as a space that preserves art in relation to specific time period has been questioned with this unique museum project. Ephemerality, the power of the moment has been strongly emphasized with Prada’s transient museum that stayed open only for one day.

Images via 24hoursmuseum.com