FENDI and DESIGN MIAMI/ CRAFT ALCHEMY

Fendi has invited designer Elisa Strozyk and artist Sebastian Neeb to create this year's Design Performance at Design Miami. Elisa and Sebastian's collaboration has generated a dreamlike installation in which the materials of traditional craftwork have undergone a magical metamorphosis.

The drama of this performance centers on a series of antique furniture pieces, primarily from the 18th century, the golden age of craftwork. Through Elisa's and Sebastian's interventions using Fendi discarded leather materials, the furniture has transformed from solid wood into leather and other pliable textiles.

These enchanted objects are set within an environment inspired by Palazzo Fendi, the grand Neo-Classical building that houses Fendi's international headquarters originally built around 1700. Elisa and Sebastian designed the setting after one of the original rooms of Palazzo, which they imagined to have remained secret and untouched for 300 years. Elisa and Sebastian have extended this theme into the design of Design Miami's exclusive Collectors Lounge, hosted for the first time this year by Fendi.

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• CRAFT
• ALCHEMY
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• STROZYK
• SEBASTIAN
• NEEB