Haute Concept

Karl Lagerfeld is teaming up with one of the top architects in Britain for a handbag inspired portable pavilion of sorts.

The Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion, a translucent structure, is described with quite tragic bathos by Chanel’s sirens as “a gleaming futuristic pavilion with the startling appearance of a glamorous spaceship”. With a steel frame “constructed at a factory in Yorkshire”, the pavilion’s loop-form folds into a sequence of darkened spaces “embracing visitors in intimate proximity to the art, and one another, before depositing them into the daylight-suffused central court at the end of the exhibition”.

via The Independent