Architect Matteo Thun and Marni's Consuelo Castiglioni joined together to create "The Wooden Beacons," an installation in the courtyard of the Marnie boutique. The sculpture is part of the Interni Think Tank Installations, a collection of divine design installations that are found all around the city. This work, created in association with the American Hardwood Export Council, is about juxtaposition, it consists of the "hardware" elements of red wood planks interacting with the "software" elements of plastic bags filled with a variety of Marnie prints from the 2010 collection. The unusual juxtaposition of hard and soft, the eruption of the planks from the ground, and the variety of color and pattern is innovative, eye catching, and stunning. According to Thun, the piece is about life cycles and as he says ...... "There is nothing that grows old faster than the new."
"The Wooden Beacons" was the first "piece" I saw in Milan .... It's
amazing and I went back to see it 4 or 5 times!!! I even took
the E-I-C .... he loved it too!!!! In fact, we're fighting
over who's backyard it belongs in!!!!
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