Published on : Tuesday, April 14, 2015
The work of designer Jean Paul Gaulter will be exhibited in Studio Makkink & Bey for the forth coming exhibition in Paris to be held from 1 April to August 3 at the Grand Palais. Studio Makkink & Bey’s installation, Morphing: The Living, is inspired by the duo’s set design for Gaultier’s spring/summer 2004 fashion show.
The interior will be based around the Kokon Furniture series, designed by Jurgen Bey in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Gaultier noticed the Kokon range at the Sketch gallery in London and was so impressed that he asked Studio Makkink & Bey to design a set for his show. In the design for that show chairs and tables were pressed against an elastic skin, showing a skeleton of recognizable furniture forms. The backdrop connected arm rests and chair seats and merged into a domestic hybrid with the wall behind the fashion models. Now, in 2015, Gaultier has again approached the designers, who will transform the entrance room of the Grand Palais with Morphing.
Tags: Grand Palais, Jean Paul Gaultier, Jurgen Bey, Kokon Furniture, Studio Makkink & Bey
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