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Avant-garde design studio Bless has taken a look behind the scenes at luxury house Fendi to make design-art pieces that are the perfect fit
There are few international events in which the worlds of fashion, design and art converge as coherently and with as much fanfare as Design Miami/. This can largely be put down to the involvement of Italian luxury house Fendi, which became one of the first fashion brands to link itself to the design world when it launched apartnership with the fair in 2008. Since then, it has worked with stellar names including Tom Dixon, Formafantasma, Dimore Studio, Cristina Celestino and Sabine Marcelis, among others, to explore what creative director Silvia Venturini Fendi calls the ‘contamination’ between design and fashion.
It’s an interdisciplinary collaboration that is stronger than ever, and in December last year, the latest iteration of this creative fusion was revealed at Design Miami/ to critical acclaim. ‘Fendibackfrontals’ is conceived by the hard-to-categorise creative studio Bless that’s run by Paris/Berlin-based designers Desiree Heiss and Ines Kaag. The installation comprises four double-sided screens (created by Fendi Casa) featuring lifesized images of Fendi-related interiors on the front, while on the back there are exquisitely panelled alcove
