Swarovski Crystal Palace + Design Miami/
Hi-tech installation by Greg LynnAs main sponsor of Design Miami/ 2009, Swarovski Crystal Palace unveiled a show-stopping hi-tech installation by Greg Lynn at Design Miami, which opened on December 1st. Located at the entrance to the Designers’ Lounge, the structure extends over 80 square meters and reaches over seven meters in height, where the ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels or “sails” where molded, curved and billowing shapes overlap and intersect.
The installation uses cutting edge technology from the sailing and shipbuilding industry in which carbon and aramid fibres are compressed between transparent sheets of Mylar to make astonishingly strong, lightweight and transparent sails that are less than 1mm thick. “The sails are made to cope with massive loads from the wind,” Lynn comments. “It’s like hanging 3 SUVs off a paper thin sheet.” Lynn has taken this technology to create his sculptural composition, incorporating thousands of Swarovski crystals.
Swarovski Crystal Palace celebrated the launch of the installation in honor of Greg Lynn with a guest list of design, art and architecture icons including Maarten Baas, Yves Béhar, Tom Dixon, Peter Dundas, Jefferson Hack, Arik Levy, Ambra Medda, Craig Robins and Viktor & Rolf.
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