{Haven’t featured Peter Marino enough, I think - considering retail design features heavily on the b
{Haven’t featured Peter Marino enough, I think - considering retail design features heavily on the blog. Came across his recent design for the Fendi flagship in midtown New York.}The inside was a different scenario. “Beyond a gut renovation,” he says. “A demolition derby.” That left a blank slate on which to deploy a full palette of innovative materials. Besides the petrified wood, they include a nubby, ridged form of stucco. It’s created with mortar and pestle—“mushing gold powder in with the plaster,” he says—and used on display walls for handbags and other leather goods. Walls throughout the ground level, meanwhile, boast a white surface produced by coating strips of canvas in gesso. Wildly tactile, it’s nevertheless perfectly understated in contrast to another Marino invention: Like gold lamé fed through a shredder, a shaggy substance composed of brown and gold strips of cast-off leather emerges from the wall. “It’s just insane,” he says. “Demented.” It’s certainly an unmissable backdrop for Fendi’s latest Baguettes. Other innovations include the shoe salon’s walls lacquered in loose, broad strokes of brown and gold, reading more faux fur than faux bois. “The DNA of Fendi is fur,” he emphasizes. “We developed a lacquer that is furlike in that the color never looks the same way twice. I was going for irregularities.”A very different kind of irregular treatment swaths the upstairs fitting room. Stretching white canvas over pencillike rods, sticking out of the wall behind, creates undulating points and dimples or peaks and valleys, all light and shade. He calls the effect “a nod to Achille Castiglioni,” whose achievements were concurrent with Fendi’s “explosion of modernity,” when Karl Lagerfeld began designing for the house in 1965. The door of the fitting room swings open to reveal a striking black-and-white photograph of the head of a Roman statue badly damaged over the millennia. “It captures that feeling of an empire reaching great heights of art, before the fall,” he says. “That’s sort of a commentary.”via -- source link
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